Who Was Alive
Pierre Bayle
Attributed to Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pierre Bayle

French philosopher and writer

Born 18 November 1647 · died 28 December 1706, aged 59
Also known as Peter Bayle, C L A A P D P, Monsieur C. L. A. A. P. D. P.

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre Bayle?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  3. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  4. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  5. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  6. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  12. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  13. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  15. Pierre Bayle, 1647 – 1706
  16. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  17. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  18. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  20. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  22. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  23. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  24. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790

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When Pierre Bayle was born, Isaac Newton was 4, René Descartes was 51, Molière was 25, John Locke was 15 and Rembrandt was 41.

When Pierre Bayle died, Isaac Newton was 63, Johann Sebastian Bach was 21, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was under a year old and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

Born during Pierre Bayle’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, Montesquieu and George Frideric Handel.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 5 years before Pierre Bayle was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 6 years after Pierre Bayle died, Carl Linnaeus was born about a year after Pierre Bayle died and Leonhard Euler was born about a year after Pierre Bayle died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

163 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pierre Bayle. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1677.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  28. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  33. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  34. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  35. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  38. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  41. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  44. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  45. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  46. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  47. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  50. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  51. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  52. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  53. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  54. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  55. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  56. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  57. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  58. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  59. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  60. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  61. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  62. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  63. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  64. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  65. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  66. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  67. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  68. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  69. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  70. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  71. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  72. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  73. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  74. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  75. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  76. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  77. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  78. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  79. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  80. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  81. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  82. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  83. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  84. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  85. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  86. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  87. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  88. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  89. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  90. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  91. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  92. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  93. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  94. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  95. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  96. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  97. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  98. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  99. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  100. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  101. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  102. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  103. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  104. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  105. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  106. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  107. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  108. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  109. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  110. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  111. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  112. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  113. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  114. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  115. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  116. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  117. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  118. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  119. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  120. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  121. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  122. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  123. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  124. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  125. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  126. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  127. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  128. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  129. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  130. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  131. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  132. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  133. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  134. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  135. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  136. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  137. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  138. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  139. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  140. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  141. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  142. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  143. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  144. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  145. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  146. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  147. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  148. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  149. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  150. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707