Who Was Alive

William Harvey

English physician

Born 1 April 1578 · died 3 June 1657, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as William Harvey?

  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. William Harvey
  11. Thomas Hobbes
  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 William Harvey was born, William Shakespeare was 13 or 14, Galileo Galilei was 14, Francis Bacon was 17, Elizabeth I of England was 44 and Johannes Kepler was 6.

When William Harvey died, Isaac Newton was 14, Molière was 35, John Locke was 24, Rembrandt was 50 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 10.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died 14 years before William Harvey was born, Jonathan Swift was born 10 years after William Harvey died, Suleiman the Magnificent died 12 years before William Harvey was born and Daniel Defoe was born 2 years after William Harvey died.

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  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. 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
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  47. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  48. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  49. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
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  55. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
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