Who Was Alive

Aurangzeb

The sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707

Born 3 November 1618 · died 3 March 1707, aged 88

Who was alive at the same time as Aurangzeb?

  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. Johannes Kepler
  4. Peter Paul Rubens
  5. Thomas Hobbes
  6. René Descartes
  7. Diego Velázquez
  8. Rembrandt
  9. Aurangzeb
  10. Molière
  11. Blaise Pascal
  12. John Locke
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza
  14. Louis XIV of France
  15. Isaac Newton
  16. Matsuo Bashō
  17. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  18. Jonathan Swift
  19. Peter the Great
  20. Antonio Vivaldi
  21. George Frideric Handel
  22. Johann Sebastian Bach
  23. Voltaire
  24. Benjamin Franklin
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 Aurangzeb was born, Galileo Galilei was 54, René Descartes was 22, Rembrandt was 12, Francis Bacon was 57 and Johannes Kepler was 46.

When Aurangzeb died, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 21, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

Born during Aurangzeb’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Molière, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Matsuo Bashō.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 2 years before Aurangzeb was born, Miguel de Cervantes died 2 years before Aurangzeb was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 5 years after Aurangzeb died and Carl Linnaeus was born months after Aurangzeb died.

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All 64 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. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  48. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  49. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  51. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  54. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  55. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  56. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745