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Pope Innocent X
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Pope Innocent X

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 6 May 1574 · died 7 January 1655, aged 80
Also known as Innocent X, pape Innocent X, Innozenz X. Papst

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

  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. Pope Innocent X, 1574 – 1655
  10. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  11. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  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 Pope Innocent X was born, William Shakespeare was 10, Galileo Galilei was 10, Elizabeth I was 40, Francis Bacon was 13 and Johannes Kepler was 2.

When Pope Innocent X died, Isaac Newton was 12, Molière was 32, John Locke was 22, Rembrandt was 48 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 8.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 10 years before Pope Innocent X was born, Jonathan Swift was born about 12 years after Pope Innocent X died, Suleiman the Magnificent died about 8 years before Pope Innocent X was born and Daniel Defoe was born about 4 years after Pope Innocent X died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

203 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Innocent X. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1615.

  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. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  31. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  40. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  41. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  47. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  48. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  49. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  54. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  55. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  56. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  57. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  58. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  59. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  60. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  61. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  62. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  63. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  64. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  65. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  66. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  67. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  69. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  70. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  71. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  72. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  73. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  74. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  75. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  76. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  77. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  78. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  79. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  80. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  81. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  82. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  83. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  84. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  85. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  86. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  87. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  88. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  89. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  90. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  91. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  92. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  93. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  94. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  95. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  96. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  97. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  98. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  99. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  100. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  101. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  102. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  103. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  104. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  105. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  106. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  107. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  108. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  109. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  110. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  111. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  112. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  113. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  114. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  115. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  116. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  117. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  118. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  119. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  120. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  121. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  122. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  123. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  124. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  125. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  126. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  127. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  128. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  129. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  130. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  131. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  132. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  133. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  134. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  135. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  136. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  137. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  138. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  139. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  140. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  141. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  142. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  143. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  144. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  145. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  146. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  147. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  148. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  149. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  150. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717