Who Was Alive
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Samuel de Champlain

French explorer

Born 1565–1574 · died 25 December 1635
Also known as Samuel Champlain

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel de Champlain?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  5. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  7. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  8. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  9. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  10. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  11. Samuel de Champlain, c. 1570 – 1635
  12. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  13. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  14. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  15. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  16. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  17. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  18. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  19. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  21. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  22. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  23. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  24. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677

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When Samuel de Champlain died, Galileo Galilei was 71, René Descartes was 39, Molière was 13, John Locke was 3 and Rembrandt was 29.

Born during Samuel de Champlain’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 8 years after Samuel de Champlain died, Michelangelo died about a year before Samuel de Champlain was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 11 years after Samuel de Champlain died and Matsuo Bashō was born about 9 years after Samuel de Champlain died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

173 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Samuel de Champlain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1605.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  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. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  49. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  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. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  63. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  67. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  68. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  69. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  70. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  71. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  72. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  73. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  74. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  75. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  76. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  77. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  78. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  79. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  80. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  81. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  82. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  83. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  84. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  85. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  86. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  87. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  93. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  96. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  97. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  98. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  99. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  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 Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  105. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  106. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  107. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  108. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  109. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  110. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  111. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  112. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  113. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  114. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  115. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  116. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  117. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  118. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  119. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  120. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  121. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  122. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  123. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  124. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  125. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  126. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  127. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  128. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  129. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  130. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  131. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  132. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  133. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  134. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  135. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  136. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  137. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  138. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  139. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  140. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  141. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  142. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  143. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  144. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  145. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  146. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  147. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  148. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  149. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  150. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598