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Pope Alexander VIII
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Pope Alexander VIII

Venetian Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 22 April 1610 · died 1 February 1691, aged 80
Also known as Alexander VIII, Pietro Ottoboni, Alessandro VIII

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Alexander VIII?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  2. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  3. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  4. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  5. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  6. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  7. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  8. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  9. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  10. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  11. Pope Alexander VIII, 1610 – 1691
  12. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  13. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  14. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  15. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  16. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  17. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  18. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  19. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  20. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  21. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  22. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  23. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  24. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755

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When Pope Alexander VIII was born, William Shakespeare was 45 or 46, Galileo Galilei was 46, René Descartes was 14, Rembrandt was 3 and Francis Bacon was 49.

When Pope Alexander VIII died, Isaac Newton was 48, Johann Sebastian Bach was 5, John Locke was 58, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 44 and Matsuo Bashō was 46 or 47.

Born during Pope Alexander VIII’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire was born about 3 years after Pope Alexander VIII died, Benjamin Franklin was born about 15 years after Pope Alexander VIII died, Elizabeth I died about 7 years before Pope Alexander VIII was born and Akbar died about 5 years before Pope Alexander VIII was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

198 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Alexander VIII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1651.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  44. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  47. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  48. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  51. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  52. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  53. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  60. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  61. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  62. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  63. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  64. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  65. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  66. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  67. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  68. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  69. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  70. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  71. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  72. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  73. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  74. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  75. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  76. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  77. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  78. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  79. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  80. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  81. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  82. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  85. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  86. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  87. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  88. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  89. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  90. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  91. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  92. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  93. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  94. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  95. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  96. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  97. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  98. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  99. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  100. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  101. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  102. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  103. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  104. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  105. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  106. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  107. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  108. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  109. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  110. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  111. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  112. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  113. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  114. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  115. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  116. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  117. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  118. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  119. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  120. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  121. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  122. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  123. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  124. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  125. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  126. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  127. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  128. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  129. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  130. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  131. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  132. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  133. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  134. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  135. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  136. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  137. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  138. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  139. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  140. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  141. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  142. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  143. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  144. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  145. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  146. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  147. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  148. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  149. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  150. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721