Who Was Alive

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish dramatist

Born 17 January 1600 · died 25 May 1681, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Pedro Calderón de la Barca?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. William Shakespeare
  7. Johannes Kepler
  8. Peter Paul Rubens
  9. Thomas Hobbes
  10. René Descartes
  11. Diego Velázquez
  12. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  13. Rembrandt
  14. Molière
  15. Blaise Pascal
  16. John Locke
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza
  18. Louis XIV of France
  19. Isaac Newton
  20. Matsuo Bashō
  21. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  22. Jonathan Swift
  23. Peter the Great
  24. Antonio Vivaldi
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When Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born, William Shakespeare was 35, Galileo Galilei was 35, René Descartes was 3, Francis Bacon was 38 and Elizabeth I of England was 66.

When Pedro Calderón de la Barca died, Isaac Newton was 38, John Locke was 48, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 34, Matsuo Bashō was 36 or 37 and Louis XIV of France was 42.

Born during Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born 4 years after Pedro Calderón de la Barca died, Voltaire was born 13 years after Pedro Calderón de la Barca died, George Frideric Handel was born 4 years after Pedro Calderón de la Barca died and Montesquieu was born 8 years after Pedro Calderón de la Barca died.

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All 64 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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  24. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  25. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  41. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  42. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  50. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  51. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  54. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  55. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  56. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745