Who Was Alive

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician and lawyer

Born 1607 · died 12 January 1665, aged 57 or 58

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre de Fermat?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Johannes Kepler
  7. Peter Paul Rubens
  8. Thomas Hobbes
  9. René Descartes
  10. Diego Velázquez
  11. Oliver Cromwell
  12. Rembrandt
  13. Pierre de Fermat
  14. John Milton
  15. Jean de La Fontaine
  16. Molière
  17. Blaise Pascal
  18. John Locke
  19. Benedictus de Spinoza
  20. Louis XIV of France
  21. Isaac Newton
  22. Matsuo Bashō
  23. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  24. Daniel Defoe
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When Pierre de Fermat was born, William Shakespeare was 42 or 43, Galileo Galilei was 42 or 43, René Descartes was 10 or 11, Rembrandt was about a year old and Francis Bacon was 45 or 46.

When Pierre de Fermat died, Isaac Newton was 22, Molière was 42, John Locke was 32, Rembrandt was 58 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 18.

Born during Pierre de Fermat’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France and Benedictus de Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England died 4 years before Pierre de Fermat was born, Peter the Great was born 7 years after Pierre de Fermat died, Akbar died 2 years before Pierre de Fermat was born and Antonio Vivaldi was born 13 years after Pierre de Fermat died.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  30. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  31. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  32. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  33. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  34. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  35. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  36. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  37. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  38. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  49. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  50. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  54. William III of England 1650 – 1702