Who Was Alive

Francis Bacon

English philosopher and statesman

Born 22 January 1561 · died 9 April 1626 (Julian calendar), aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Francis Bacon?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Suleiman the Magnificent
  4. John Calvin
  5. Michel de Montaigne
  6. Elizabeth I of England
  7. Akbar
  8. Miguel de Cervantes
  9. Giordano Bruno
  10. Francis Bacon
  11. Lope de Vega
  12. Galileo Galilei
  13. William Shakespeare
  14. Johannes Kepler
  15. Peter Paul Rubens
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. René Descartes
  18. Diego Velázquez
  19. Oliver Cromwell
  20. Rembrandt
  21. John Milton
  22. Jean de La Fontaine
  23. Molière
  24. Blaise Pascal
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 Francis Bacon was born, Michelangelo was 85, Elizabeth I of England was 27, Akbar was 18, Suleiman the Magnificent was 66 and Giordano Bruno was 12 or 13.

When Francis Bacon died, Galileo Galilei was 62, René Descartes was 30, Molière was 4, Rembrandt was 19 and Blaise Pascal was 2.

Born during Francis Bacon’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died 15 years before Francis Bacon was born, John Locke was born 6 years after Francis Bacon died, Louis XIV of France was born 12 years after Francis Bacon died and Benedictus de Spinoza was born 6 years after Francis Bacon died.

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All 59 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  33. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  40. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  43. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  44. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  45. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  50. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  52. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  57. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  58. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  59. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644