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Sigismund III Vasa
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Sigismund III Vasa

King of Poland

Born 20 June 1566 · died 19 April 1632 (Julian calendar), aged 65
Also known as Sigismund III of Poland

Who was alive at the same time as Sigismund III Vasa?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  3. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  4. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  5. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  6. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  8. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  9. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  10. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  11. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  12. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  13. Sigismund III Vasa, 1566 – 1632
  14. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  15. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  16. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  17. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  18. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  19. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  20. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  21. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  23. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  24. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662

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When Sigismund III Vasa was born, William Shakespeare was 2, Galileo Galilei was 2, Elizabeth I was 32, Francis Bacon was 5 and Akbar was 23.

When Sigismund III Vasa died, Galileo Galilei was 68, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 10, Rembrandt was 25 and Blaise Pascal was 8.

Born during Sigismund III Vasa’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 11 years after Sigismund III Vasa died, Michelangelo died about 2 years before Sigismund III Vasa was born, John Locke was born months after Sigismund III Vasa died and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 14 years after Sigismund III Vasa died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

175 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sigismund III Vasa. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1599.

  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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  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. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  52. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  55. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  61. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  62. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  65. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  66. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  67. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  68. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  69. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  70. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  71. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  72. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  73. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  74. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  75. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  76. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  77. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  78. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  79. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  80. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  81. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  82. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  83. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  84. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  85. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  86. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  87. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  88. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  89. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  90. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  91. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  92. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  93. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  94. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  95. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  96. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  97. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  98. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  99. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  100. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  101. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  102. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  103. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  104. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  105. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  106. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  107. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  108. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  109. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  110. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  111. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  112. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  113. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  114. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  115. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  116. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  117. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  118. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  119. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  120. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  121. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  122. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  123. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  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. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  138. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  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. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  145. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  146. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  147. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  148. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  149. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  150. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593