Who Was Alive

Shah Jahan

The fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658

Born 15 January 1592 · died 22 January 1666, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Shah Jahan?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Giordano Bruno
  5. Francis Bacon
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Peter Paul Rubens
  10. Thomas Hobbes
  11. Shah Jahan
  12. René Descartes
  13. Diego Velázquez
  14. Rembrandt
  15. John Milton
  16. Jean de La Fontaine
  17. Molière
  18. Blaise Pascal
  19. John Locke
  20. Benedictus de Spinoza
  21. Louis XIV of France
  22. Isaac Newton
  23. Matsuo Bashō
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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When Shah Jahan was born, William Shakespeare was 27, Galileo Galilei was 27, Francis Bacon was 30, Elizabeth I of England was 58 and Johannes Kepler was 20.

When Shah Jahan died, Isaac Newton was 23, Molière was 44, John Locke was 33, Rembrandt was 59 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 19.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born 6 years after Shah Jahan died, Antonio Vivaldi was born 12 years after Shah Jahan died, Jonathan Swift was born about a year after Shah Jahan died and Mimar Sinan died 4 years before Shah Jahan was born.

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All 65 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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Benedictus de 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. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  25. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  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. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  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. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  58. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  59. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  60. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  61. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  62. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  63. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  64. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  65. William III of England 1650 – 1702