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Vincent de Paul
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Vincent de Paul

French priest

Born 24 April 1581 · died 27 September 1660, aged 79
Also known as St. Vincent de Paul

Who was alive at the same time as Vincent de Paul?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  5. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  6. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  7. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  8. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  10. Vincent de Paul, 1581 – 1660
  11. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  12. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  13. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  14. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  15. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  16. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  17. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  18. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  19. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  20. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  21. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  22. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  23. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716

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When Vincent de Paul was born, William Shakespeare was 16 or 17, Galileo Galilei was 17, Elizabeth I was 47, Francis Bacon was 20 and Johannes Kepler was 9.

When Vincent de Paul died, Isaac Newton was 17, Molière was 38, John Locke was 28, Rembrandt was 54 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 14.

Born during Vincent de Paul’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 about 12 years after Vincent de Paul died, Jonathan Swift was born about 7 years after Vincent de Paul died, Suleiman the Magnificent died about 15 years before Vincent de Paul was born and Nostradamus died about 15 years before Vincent de Paul was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

201 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vincent de Paul. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1621.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Baruch 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. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  25. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  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. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  45. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  54. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  55. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  56. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  57. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  58. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  59. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  60. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  61. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  62. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  63. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  64. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  65. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  66. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  67. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  68. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  69. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  71. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  72. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  73. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  74. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  75. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  76. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  80. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  81. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  82. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  83. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  84. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  85. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  86. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  87. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  88. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  89. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  90. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  91. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  92. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  93. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  94. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  95. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  96. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  97. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  98. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  99. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  100. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  102. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  103. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  104. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  105. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  106. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  107. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  108. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  109. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  110. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  111. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  112. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  113. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  114. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  115. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  116. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  117. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  118. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  119. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  120. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  121. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  122. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  123. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  124. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  125. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  126. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  127. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  128. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  129. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  130. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  131. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  132. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  133. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  134. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  135. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  136. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  137. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  138. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  139. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  140. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  141. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  142. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  143. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  144. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  145. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  146. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  147. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  148. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  149. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  150. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618