Who Was Alive

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer

Born 27 December 1571 · died 15 November 1630, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Johannes Kepler?

  1. Mimar Sinan
  2. Michel de Montaigne
  3. Elizabeth I of England
  4. Francis Drake
  5. Akbar
  6. Miguel de Cervantes
  7. Tycho Brahe
  8. Giordano Bruno
  9. Francis Bacon
  10. Lope de Vega
  11. Galileo Galilei
  12. William Shakespeare
  13. Johannes Kepler
  14. Peter Paul Rubens
  15. Thomas Hobbes
  16. René Descartes
  17. Diego Velázquez
  18. Oliver Cromwell
  19. Rembrandt
  20. John Milton
  21. Jean de La Fontaine
  22. Molière
  23. Blaise Pascal
  24. Christiaan Huygens
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When Johannes Kepler was born, William Shakespeare was 7, Galileo Galilei was 7, Francis Bacon was 10, Elizabeth I of England was 38 and Akbar was 29.

When Johannes Kepler died, Galileo Galilei was 66, René Descartes was 34, Molière was 8, Rembrandt was 24 and Blaise Pascal was 7.

Born during Johannes Kepler’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes and John Milton.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born 13 years after Johannes Kepler died, Michelangelo died 8 years before Johannes Kepler was born, John Locke was born 2 years after Johannes Kepler died and Matsuo Bashō was born 14 years after Johannes Kepler died.

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All 58 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  16. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  20. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  21. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  22. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  23. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  30. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  43. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  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. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644