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Philip III of Spain
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Philip III of Spain

Monarch of Castile and Leon

Born 14 April 1578 · died 31 March 1621, aged 42
Also known as Philip II of Portugal, Philip III

Who was alive at the same time as Philip III of Spain?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  3. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  4. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  5. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  7. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  8. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  9. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  10. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  11. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  12. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  13. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  14. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  15. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  16. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  17. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  18. Philip III of Spain, 1578 – 1621
  19. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  20. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  21. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  22. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  23. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Philip III of Spain was born, William Shakespeare was 13 or 14, Galileo Galilei was 14, Elizabeth I was 44, Francis Bacon was 17 and Johannes Kepler was 6.

When Philip III of Spain died, Galileo Galilei was 57, René Descartes was 25, Rembrandt was 14, Francis Bacon was 60 and Johannes Kepler was 49.

Born during Philip III of Spain’s lifetime: René Descartes, Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Pierre de Fermat and Charles I of England.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 14 years before Philip III of Spain was born, Molière was born about a year after Philip III of Spain died, John Locke was born about 11 years after Philip III of Spain died and Blaise Pascal was born about 2 years after Philip III of Spain died.

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The 147 best-known contemporaries

147 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Philip III of Spain. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1600.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  6. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  13. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  14. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  18. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  19. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  20. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  24. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  25. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  26. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  27. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  28. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  30. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  33. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  34. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  37. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  38. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  39. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  40. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  41. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  42. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  43. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  45. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  48. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  49. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  50. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  51. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  52. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  53. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  54. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  55. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  56. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  57. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  58. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  59. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  60. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  61. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  62. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  63. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  64. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  65. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  66. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  67. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  68. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  69. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  70. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  71. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  72. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  73. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  74. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  75. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  76. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  77. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  78. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  79. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  80. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  81. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  82. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  83. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  84. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  85. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  86. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  87. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  88. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  89. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  90. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  91. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  92. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  93. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  94. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  95. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  96. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  97. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  98. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  99. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  100. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  101. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  102. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  103. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  104. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  105. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  106. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  107. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  108. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  109. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  110. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  111. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  112. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  113. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  114. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  115. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  116. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  117. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  118. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  119. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  120. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  121. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  122. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  123. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  124. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  125. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  126. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  127. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  128. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  129. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  130. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  131. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  132. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  133. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  134. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  135. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  136. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  137. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  138. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  139. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  140. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  141. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  142. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  143. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  144. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  145. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586
  146. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  147. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655