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Pierre Gassendi
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Pierre Gassendi

French philosopher and astronomer

Born 22 January 1592 · died 24 October 1655, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre Gassendi?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  5. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  6. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  7. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  8. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  10. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  11. Pierre Gassendi, 1592 – 1655
  12. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  13. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  14. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  15. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  16. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  17. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  18. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  19. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  20. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  21. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  22. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  23. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716

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When Pierre Gassendi was born, William Shakespeare was 27, Galileo Galilei was 27, Elizabeth I was 58, Francis Bacon was 30 and Johannes Kepler was 20.

When Pierre Gassendi died, Isaac Newton was 12, Molière was 33, John Locke was 23, Rembrandt was 49 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 9.

Born during Pierre Gassendi’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Jonathan Swift was born about 12 years after Pierre Gassendi died, Daniel Defoe was born about 4 years after Pierre Gassendi died, Mimar Sinan died about 4 years before Pierre Gassendi was born and Ivan the Terrible died about 8 years before Pierre Gassendi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

179 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pierre Gassendi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1624.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  41. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  42. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  43. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  46. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  47. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  48. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  51. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  52. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  53. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  54. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  55. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  56. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  57. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  60. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  61. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  65. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  66. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  67. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  68. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  69. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  70. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  71. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  72. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  73. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  74. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  75. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  76. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  77. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  78. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  79. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  80. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  81. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  82. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  83. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  84. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  85. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  86. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  87. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  88. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  89. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  90. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  91. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  92. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  93. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  94. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  95. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  96. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  97. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  98. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  99. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  100. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  101. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  102. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  103. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  104. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  105. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  106. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  107. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  108. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  109. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  110. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  111. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  112. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  113. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  114. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  115. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  116. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  117. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  118. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  119. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  120. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  121. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  122. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  123. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  124. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  125. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  126. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  127. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  128. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  129. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  130. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  131. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  132. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  133. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  134. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  135. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  136. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  137. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  138. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  139. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  140. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  141. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  142. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  143. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  144. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  145. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  146. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  147. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  148. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  149. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  150. François Viète 1540 – 1603