Who Was Alive

Matsuo Bashō

Japanese poet

Born 1644 · died 28 November 1694, aged 49 or 50

Who was alive at the same time as Matsuo Bashō?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. René Descartes
  3. Diego Velázquez
  4. Oliver Cromwell
  5. Rembrandt
  6. John Milton
  7. Jean de La Fontaine
  8. Molière
  9. Blaise Pascal
  10. John Locke
  11. Benedictus de Spinoza
  12. Louis XIV of France
  13. Isaac Newton
  14. Matsuo Bashō
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  16. Daniel Defoe
  17. Jonathan Swift
  18. Peter the Great
  19. Antonio Vivaldi
  20. George Frideric Handel
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach
  22. Alexander Pope
  23. Montesquieu
  24. Voltaire
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 Matsuo Bashō was born, Isaac Newton was about a year old, René Descartes was 47 or 48, Molière was 21 or 22, John Locke was 11 or 12 and Rembrandt was 37 or 38.

When Matsuo Bashō died, Isaac Newton was 51, Johann Sebastian Bach was 9, Voltaire was under a year old, John Locke was 62 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 48.

Born during Matsuo Bashō’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, George Frideric Handel and Montesquieu.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died 2 years before Matsuo Bashō was born, Benjamin Franklin was born 12 years after Matsuo Bashō died, Carl Linnaeus was born 13 years after Matsuo Bashō died and Leonhard Euler was born 13 years after Matsuo Bashō died.

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All 51 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  15. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  18. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  30. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  31. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  32. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  33. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  34. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  37. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  38. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  45. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  48. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  49. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  50. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  51. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745