Who Was Alive

Abel Tasman

Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant

Born 1603 · died 10 October 1659, aged 55 or 56

Who was alive at the same time as Abel Tasman?

  1. Akbar
  2. Miguel de Cervantes
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Lope de Vega
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. William Shakespeare
  7. Johannes Kepler
  8. Peter Paul Rubens
  9. Thomas Hobbes
  10. René Descartes
  11. Diego Velázquez
  12. Oliver Cromwell
  13. Abel Tasman
  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
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abel Tasman was born, William Shakespeare was 38 or 39, Galileo Galilei was 38 or 39, René Descartes was 6 or 7, Francis Bacon was 41 or 42 and Johannes Kepler was 30 or 31.

When Abel Tasman died, Isaac Newton was 16, Molière was 37, John Locke was 27, Rembrandt was 53 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 13.

Born during Abel Tasman’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born 13 years after Abel Tasman died, Jonathan Swift was born 8 years after Abel Tasman died, Giordano Bruno died 3 years before Abel Tasman was born and Michel de Montaigne died 11 years before Abel Tasman was born.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  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. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  49. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  50. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  54. William III of England 1650 – 1702