Who Was Alive

John Locke

English philosopher and physician

Born 29 August 1632 (Julian calendar) · died 28 October 1704 (Julian calendar), aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as John Locke?

  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 Locke
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza
  13. Louis XIV of France
  14. Isaac Newton
  15. Matsuo Bashō
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  17. Daniel Defoe
  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 Locke was born, Galileo Galilei was 68, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 10, Rembrandt was 26 and Blaise Pascal was 9.

When John Locke died, Isaac Newton was 61, Johann Sebastian Bach was 19, Voltaire was 9, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 58 and Louis XIV of France was 66.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 8 years after John Locke died, Benjamin Franklin was born 2 years after John Locke died, Carl Linnaeus was born 3 years after John Locke died and Leonhard Euler was born 3 years after John Locke died.

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All 58 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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  29. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  30. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  31. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  34. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  35. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  36. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  37. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  50. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  54. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  55. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  56. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  58. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745