Who Was Alive

Louis XIII of France

King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643

Born 27 September 1601 · died 14 May 1643, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Louis XIII of France?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Tycho Brahe
  5. Francis Bacon
  6. Lope de Vega
  7. Galileo Galilei
  8. William Shakespeare
  9. Johannes Kepler
  10. Peter Paul Rubens
  11. Thomas Hobbes
  12. René Descartes
  13. Diego Velázquez
  14. Oliver Cromwell
  15. Louis XIII of France
  16. Rembrandt
  17. John Milton
  18. Jean de La Fontaine
  19. Molière
  20. Blaise Pascal
  21. John Locke
  22. Benedictus de Spinoza
  23. Louis XIV of France
  24. Isaac Newton
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 Louis XIII of France was born, William Shakespeare was 37, Galileo Galilei was 37, René Descartes was 5, Francis Bacon was 40 and Elizabeth I of England was 68.

When Louis XIII of France died, Isaac Newton was under a year old, René Descartes was 47, Molière was 21, John Locke was 10 and Rembrandt was 36.

Born during Louis XIII of France’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France, Benedictus de Spinoza and John Milton.

Not quite contemporaries: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born 3 years after Louis XIII of France died, Matsuo Bashō was born about a year after Louis XIII of France died, Giordano Bruno died about a year before Louis XIII of France was born and Michel de Montaigne died 9 years before Louis XIII of France was born.

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All 52 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  51. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  52. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644