Who Was Alive
Pocahontas
Unidentified Artist; copy after Simon van de Passe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pocahontas

American writer

Born c. 1596 · died 21 March 1617
Also known as Rebecca Rolfe, Amonute, Matoaka

Who was alive at the same time as Pocahontas?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. El Greco, 1541 – 1614
  3. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  4. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  6. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  7. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  8. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  9. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  10. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  11. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  12. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  13. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  14. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  15. Pocahontas, c. 1596 – 1617
  16. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  17. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  18. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1600 – 1681
  20. Charles I of England, 1600 – 1649
  21. Pierre Corneille, 1606 – 1684
  22. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  23. Pierre de Fermat, 1607 – 1665
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Pocahontas died, Galileo Galilei was 53, René Descartes was 20, Rembrandt was 10, Francis Bacon was 56 and Johannes Kepler was 45.

Born during Pocahontas’s lifetime: Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez, John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Pierre de Fermat, Charles I of England, Pierre Corneille and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Not quite contemporaries: Molière was born about 5 years after Pocahontas died, Blaise Pascal was born about 6 years after Pocahontas died, Jean de La Fontaine was born about 4 years after Pocahontas died and Michel de Montaigne died about a year before Pocahontas was born.

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The 108 best-known contemporaries

108 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pocahontas. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1608.

  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. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  16. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  17. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  18. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  19. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  20. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  21. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  22. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  24. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  25. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  26. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  27. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  28. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  29. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  31. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  32. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  33. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  34. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  35. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  36. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  37. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  38. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  39. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  40. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  41. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  42. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  43. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  44. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  45. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  46. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  47. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  48. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  49. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  50. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  51. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  52. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  53. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  54. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  55. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  56. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  57. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  58. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  59. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  60. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  61. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  62. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  63. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  64. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  65. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  66. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  67. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  68. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  69. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  70. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  71. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  72. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  73. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  74. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  75. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  76. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  77. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  78. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  79. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  80. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  81. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  82. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  83. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  84. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  85. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  86. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  87. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  88. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  89. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  90. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  91. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  92. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  93. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  94. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  95. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  96. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  97. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  98. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  99. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  100. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  101. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  102. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  103. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  104. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  105. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  106. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  107. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  108. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655