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Tommaso Campanella
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Tommaso Campanella

Italian philosopher and theologian

Born 4 September 1568 · died 21 May 1639, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Tommaso Campanella?

  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. Tommaso Campanella, 1568 – 1639
  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. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  18. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  20. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  21. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  22. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  23. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  24. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715

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When Tommaso Campanella was born, William Shakespeare was 4, Galileo Galilei was 4, Elizabeth I was 34, Francis Bacon was 7 and Akbar was 25.

When Tommaso Campanella died, Galileo Galilei was 75, René Descartes was 43, Molière was 17, John Locke was 6 and Rembrandt was 32.

Born during Tommaso Campanella’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler, Louis XIV and Baruch Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 4 years after Tommaso Campanella died, Michelangelo died about 4 years before Tommaso Campanella was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 7 years after Tommaso Campanella died and Matsuo Bashō was born about 5 years after Tommaso Campanella died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

183 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tommaso Campanella. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1604.

  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. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  34. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  35. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  36. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  37. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  38. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  39. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  46. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  47. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  51. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  59. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  60. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  61. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  62. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  64. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  65. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  66. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  67. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  68. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  69. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  70. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  71. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  72. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  73. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  74. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  75. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  76. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  77. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  78. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  79. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  80. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  81. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  82. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  83. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  84. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  85. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  86. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  87. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  88. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  89. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  90. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  91. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  92. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  93. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  94. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  95. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  96. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  97. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  98. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  99. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  100. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  101. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  102. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  103. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  104. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  105. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  106. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  107. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  108. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  109. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  110. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  111. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  112. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  113. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  114. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  115. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  116. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  117. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  118. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  119. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  120. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  121. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  122. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  123. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  124. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  125. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  126. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  127. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  128. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  129. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  130. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  131. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  132. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  133. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  134. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  135. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  136. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  137. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  138. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  139. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  140. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  141. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  142. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  143. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  144. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  145. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  146. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  147. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  148. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  149. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  150. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687