Who Was Alive

Rembrandt

Dutch painter and printmaker

Born 15 July 1606 · died 4 October 1669, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Rembrandt?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Johannes Kepler
  7. Peter Paul Rubens
  8. Thomas Hobbes
  9. René Descartes
  10. Diego Velázquez
  11. Oliver Cromwell
  12. Rembrandt
  13. John Milton
  14. Jean de La Fontaine
  15. Molière
  16. Blaise Pascal
  17. John Locke
  18. Benedictus de Spinoza
  19. Louis XIV of France
  20. Isaac Newton
  21. Matsuo Bashō
  22. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  23. Daniel Defoe
  24. Jonathan Swift
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When Rembrandt was born, William Shakespeare was 42, Galileo Galilei was 42, René Descartes was 10, Francis Bacon was 45 and Johannes Kepler was 34.

When Rembrandt died, Isaac Newton was 26, Molière was 47, John Locke was 37, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 23 and Matsuo Bashō was 24 or 25.

Born during Rembrandt’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France and Benedictus de Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England died 3 years before Rembrandt was born, Peter the Great was born 3 years after Rembrandt died, Akbar died about a year before Rembrandt was born and Antonio Vivaldi was born 9 years after Rembrandt died.

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All 56 contemporaries we track

  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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  50. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  54. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  55. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  56. William III of England 1650 – 1702