Who Was Alive

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Born 19 June 1623 · died 19 August 1662, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Blaise Pascal?

  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Lope de Vega
  3. Galileo Galilei
  4. Johannes Kepler
  5. Peter Paul Rubens
  6. Thomas Hobbes
  7. René Descartes
  8. Diego Velázquez
  9. Oliver Cromwell
  10. Rembrandt
  11. Pierre de Fermat
  12. John Milton
  13. Jean de La Fontaine
  14. Molière
  15. Blaise Pascal
  16. Christiaan Huygens
  17. John Locke
  18. Johannes Vermeer
  19. Benedictus de Spinoza
  20. Louis XIV of France
  21. Jean Racine
  22. Isaac Newton
  23. Matsuo Bashō
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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When Blaise Pascal was born, Galileo Galilei was 59, René Descartes was 27, Molière was 1, Rembrandt was 16 and Francis Bacon was 62.

When Blaise Pascal died, Isaac Newton was 19, Molière was 40, John Locke was 29, Rembrandt was 56 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 16.

Born during Blaise Pascal’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV of France, Benedictus de Spinoza, Christiaan Huygens and Jean Racine.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 7 years before Blaise Pascal was born, Miguel de Cervantes died 7 years before Blaise Pascal was born, Peter the Great was born 10 years after Blaise Pascal died and Jonathan Swift was born 5 years after Blaise Pascal died.

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All 48 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  17. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  18. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  19. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  20. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  21. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  22. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  23. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  24. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  25. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  26. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  27. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  28. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  29. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  30. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  31. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  32. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  33. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  34. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  35. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  36. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  37. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  38. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  39. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  40. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  41. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  42. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  43. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  44. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  45. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  48. William III of England 1650 – 1702