Who Was Alive

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists

Born 24 October 1632 · died 26 August 1723, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Peter Paul Rubens
  3. René Descartes
  4. Diego Velázquez
  5. Rembrandt
  6. Molière
  7. Blaise Pascal
  8. John Locke
  9. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza
  11. Louis XIV of France
  12. Isaac Newton
  13. Matsuo Bashō
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  15. Jonathan Swift
  16. Peter the Great
  17. Antonio Vivaldi
  18. Johann Sebastian Bach
  19. Voltaire
  20. Benjamin Franklin
  21. Leonhard Euler
  22. Carl Linnaeus
  23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  24. Adam Smith
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When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born, Galileo Galilei was 68, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 10, John Locke was under a year old and Rembrandt was 26.

When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek died, Isaac Newton was 80, Johann Sebastian Bach was 38, Voltaire was 28, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 11 and Adam Smith was under a year old.

Born during Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born 9 years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek died, Immanuel Kant was born about a year after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek died, Francis Bacon died 6 years before Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born and John Adams was born 12 years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek died.

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All 74 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  15. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  20. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  21. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  24. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  25. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  31. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  34. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  35. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  36. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  37. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  38. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  39. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  40. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  41. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  42. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  43. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  44. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  45. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  46. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  47. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  48. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  49. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  50. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  51. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  52. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  53. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  54. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  55. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  56. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  57. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  58. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  59. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  60. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  61. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  62. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  63. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  64. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  65. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  66. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  67. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  69. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  70. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  71. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  72. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  73. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  74. Pius VI 1717 – 1799