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Pope Innocent XI
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Pope Innocent XI

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 19 May 1611 · died 12 August 1689, aged 78
Also known as Innocent XI

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

  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 Innocent XI, 1611 – 1689
  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 Innocent XI was born, William Shakespeare was 47, Galileo Galilei was 47, René Descartes was 15, Rembrandt was 4 and Francis Bacon was 50.

When Pope Innocent XI died, Isaac Newton was 46, Johann Sebastian Bach was 4, John Locke was 56, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 43 and Matsuo Bashō was 44 or 45.

Born during Pope Innocent XI’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 5 years after Pope Innocent XI died, Elizabeth I died about 8 years before Pope Innocent XI was born, Akbar died about 6 years before Pope Innocent XI was born and Giordano Bruno died about 11 years before Pope Innocent XI was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

195 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Innocent XI. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1650.

  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. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  38. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  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. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  49. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  51. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  54. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  55. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  65. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  66. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  67. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  71. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  72. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  73. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  74. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  75. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  76. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  77. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  78. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  79. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  80. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  81. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  82. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  83. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  84. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  85. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  86. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  87. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  88. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  89. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  93. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  94. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  95. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  96. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  97. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  98. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  99. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  100. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  101. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  102. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  103. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  104. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  105. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  106. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  107. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  108. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  109. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  110. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  111. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  112. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  113. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  114. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  115. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  116. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  117. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  118. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  119. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  120. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  121. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  122. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  123. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  124. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  125. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  126. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  127. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  128. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  129. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  130. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  131. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  132. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  133. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  134. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  135. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  136. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  137. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  138. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  139. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  140. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  141. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  142. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  143. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  144. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  145. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  146. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  147. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  148. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  149. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  150. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631