Who Was Alive

Charles Perrault

French author

Born 12 January 1628 · died 16 May 1703, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Perrault?

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Johannes Kepler
  3. Peter Paul Rubens
  4. Thomas Hobbes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Diego Velázquez
  7. Rembrandt
  8. John Milton
  9. Molière
  10. Blaise Pascal
  11. Charles Perrault
  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. Montesquieu
  24. Voltaire
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When Charles Perrault was born, Galileo Galilei was 63, René Descartes was 31, Molière was 5, Rembrandt was 21 and Blaise Pascal was 4.

When Charles Perrault died, Isaac Newton was 60, Johann Sebastian Bach was 18, Voltaire was 8, John Locke was 70 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 56.

Born during Charles Perrault’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV of France and Peter the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 12 years before Charles Perrault was born, Miguel de Cervantes died 12 years before Charles Perrault was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 9 years after Charles Perrault died and Benjamin Franklin was born 3 years after Charles Perrault died.

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All 60 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. 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. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  14. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  36. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  37. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  38. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  45. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  49. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  50. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  51. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  52. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  60. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745