Who Was Alive

Henry IV of France

King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610

Born 13 December 1553 · died 14 May 1610, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Henry IV of France?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Jacques Cartier
  4. Suleiman the Magnificent
  5. Charles V
  6. John Calvin
  7. Michel de Montaigne
  8. Elizabeth I of England
  9. Akbar
  10. Miguel de Cervantes
  11. Giordano Bruno
  12. Henry IV of France
  13. Francis Bacon
  14. Lope de Vega
  15. Galileo Galilei
  16. William Shakespeare
  17. Johannes Kepler
  18. Peter Paul Rubens
  19. Thomas Hobbes
  20. René Descartes
  21. Diego Velázquez
  22. Oliver Cromwell
  23. Rembrandt
  24. John Milton
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When Henry IV of France was born, Michelangelo was 78, Elizabeth I of England was 20, Akbar was 11, Jacques Cartier was 61 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 59.

When Henry IV of France died, William Shakespeare was 46, Galileo Galilei was 46, René Descartes was 14, Rembrandt was 3 and Francis Bacon was 49.

Born during Henry IV of France’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died 7 years before Henry IV of France was born, Molière was born 12 years after Henry IV of France died, Nicolaus Copernicus died 10 years before Henry IV of France was born and Blaise Pascal was born 13 years after Henry IV of France died.

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All 58 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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  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. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  51. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644