Who Was Alive

John Dryden

17th-century English poet and playwright

Born 9 August 1631 (Julian calendar) · died 1 May 1700 (Julian calendar), aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as John Dryden?

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Peter Paul Rubens
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. René Descartes
  5. Diego Velázquez
  6. Rembrandt
  7. John Milton
  8. Jean de La Fontaine
  9. Molière
  10. Blaise Pascal
  11. John Dryden
  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 John Dryden was born, Galileo Galilei was 67, René Descartes was 35, Molière was 9, Rembrandt was 25 and Blaise Pascal was 8.

When John Dryden died, Isaac Newton was 57, Johann Sebastian Bach was 15, Voltaire was 5, John Locke was 67 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 53.

Born during John Dryden’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: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 12 years after John Dryden died, Benjamin Franklin was born 6 years after John Dryden died, Carl Linnaeus was born 7 years after John Dryden died and Leonhard Euler was born 7 years after John Dryden died.

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