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Shivaji
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Shivaji

Indian emperor

Born 19 February 1627 (Julian calendar) · died 3 April 1680 (Julian calendar), aged 53
Also known as Chatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosale, God of Maratha’s, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Who was alive at the same time as Shivaji?

  1. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  2. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  3. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  4. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  5. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  6. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  7. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  8. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  9. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  10. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  11. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  12. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  13. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  14. Shivaji, 1627 – 1680
  15. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  16. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  17. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  18. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  19. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  20. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  21. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  22. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  23. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  24. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741

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When Shivaji was born, Galileo Galilei was 63, René Descartes was 30, Molière was 5, Rembrandt was 20 and Blaise Pascal was 3.

When Shivaji died, Isaac Newton was 37, John Locke was 47, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 33, Matsuo Bashō was 35 or 36 and Louis XIV was 41.

Born during Shivaji’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Baruch Spinoza and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died about 11 years before Shivaji was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was born about 5 years after Shivaji died, Voltaire was born about 14 years after Shivaji died and Miguel de Cervantes died about 11 years before Shivaji was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

153 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Shivaji. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1654.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  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 c. 1661 – 1731
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  37. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  38. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  44. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  45. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  50. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  51. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  52. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  53. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  54. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  55. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  56. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  57. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  58. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  59. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  60. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  61. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  62. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  63. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  64. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  65. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  66. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  67. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  68. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  69. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  70. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  71. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  72. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  73. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  74. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  75. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  76. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  77. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  78. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  79. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  80. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  81. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  82. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  83. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  84. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  85. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  86. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  87. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  88. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  89. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  90. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  91. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  92. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  93. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  94. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  95. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  96. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  97. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  98. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  99. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  100. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  101. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  102. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  103. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  104. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  105. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  106. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  107. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  108. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  109. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  110. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  111. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  112. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  113. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  114. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  115. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  116. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  117. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  118. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  119. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  120. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  121. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  122. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  123. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  124. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  125. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  126. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  127. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  128. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  129. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  130. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  131. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  132. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  133. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  134. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  135. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  136. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  137. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  138. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  139. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  140. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  141. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  142. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  143. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  144. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  145. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  146. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  147. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  148. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  149. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  150. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682