Who Was Alive

Louis XIV of France

King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715

Born 5 September 1638 · died 1 September 1715, aged 76

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

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Peter Paul Rubens
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. René Descartes
  5. Diego Velázquez
  6. Rembrandt
  7. Molière
  8. Blaise Pascal
  9. John Locke
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza
  11. Louis XIV of France
  12. Isaac Newton
  13. Matsuo Bashō
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  15. Jonathan Swift
  16. Peter the Great
  17. Antonio Vivaldi
  18. George Frideric Handel
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach
  20. Voltaire
  21. Benjamin Franklin
  22. Leonhard Euler
  23. Carl Linnaeus
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When Louis XIV of France was born, Galileo Galilei was 74, René Descartes was 42, Molière was 16, John Locke was 5 and Rembrandt was 32.

When Louis XIV of France died, Isaac Newton was 72, Johann Sebastian Bach was 30, Voltaire was 20, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 3 and Benjamin Franklin was 9.

Born during Louis XIV of France’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Matsuo Bashō.

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant was born 9 years after Louis XIV of France died, Adam Smith was born 8 years after Louis XIV of France died, Francis Bacon died 12 years before Louis XIV of France was born and Johannes Kepler died 8 years before Louis XIV of France was born.

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All 69 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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  27. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  28. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  29. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  32. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  35. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  36. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  40. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  44. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  45. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  48. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  49. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  52. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  59. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  60. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  64. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  65. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  66. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  67. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  68. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  69. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745