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Pope Clement X
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Pope Clement X

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 13 July 1590 · died 22 July 1676, aged 86
Also known as Clement X, Clemens PP. X, Klemens X. Papst

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Clement X?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  5. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  6. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  7. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  9. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  10. Pope Clement X, 1590 – 1676
  11. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  12. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  13. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  14. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  15. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  16. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  17. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  18. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  19. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  20. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  21. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  22. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  23. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  24. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725

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When Pope Clement X was born, William Shakespeare was 26, Galileo Galilei was 26, Elizabeth I was 56, Francis Bacon was 29 and Johannes Kepler was 18.

When Pope Clement X died, Isaac Newton was 33, John Locke was 43, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 30, Matsuo Bashō was 31 or 32 and Louis XIV was 37.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born about 9 years after Pope Clement X died, Antonio Vivaldi was born about 2 years after Pope Clement X died, Montesquieu was born about 13 years after Pope Clement X died and George Frideric Handel was born about 9 years after Pope Clement X died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

207 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Clement X. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1633.

  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. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  24. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  25. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  26. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  27. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  32. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  33. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  34. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  35. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  36. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  37. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  38. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  39. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  40. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  41. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  44. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  49. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  50. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  53. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  54. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  55. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  56. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  57. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  58. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  61. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  62. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  63. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  64. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  65. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  66. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  67. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  68. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  69. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  70. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  71. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  72. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  73. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  74. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  75. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  76. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  80. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  81. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  82. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  83. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  84. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  85. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  86. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  87. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  88. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  89. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  90. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  91. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  92. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  93. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  94. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  95. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  96. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  97. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  98. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  99. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  100. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  101. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  102. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  103. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  104. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  105. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  106. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  107. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  108. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  109. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  110. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  111. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  112. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  113. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  114. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  115. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  116. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  117. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  118. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  119. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  120. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  121. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  122. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  123. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  124. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  125. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  126. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  127. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  128. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  129. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  130. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  131. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  132. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  133. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  134. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  135. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  136. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  137. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  138. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  139. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  140. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  141. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  142. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  143. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  144. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  145. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  146. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  147. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  148. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  149. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  150. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639