Who Was Alive

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish painter

Born 28 June 1577 · died 30 May 1640, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Peter Paul Rubens?

  1. Mimar Sinan
  2. Michel de Montaigne
  3. Elizabeth I of England
  4. Akbar
  5. Miguel de Cervantes
  6. Giordano Bruno
  7. Francis Bacon
  8. Lope de Vega
  9. Galileo Galilei
  10. William Shakespeare
  11. Johannes Kepler
  12. Peter Paul Rubens
  13. Thomas Hobbes
  14. René Descartes
  15. Diego Velázquez
  16. Oliver Cromwell
  17. Rembrandt
  18. John Milton
  19. Jean de La Fontaine
  20. Molière
  21. Blaise Pascal
  22. John Locke
  23. Benedictus de Spinoza
  24. Louis XIV of France
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When Peter Paul Rubens was born, William Shakespeare was 13, Galileo Galilei was 13, Francis Bacon was 16, Elizabeth I of England was 43 and Johannes Kepler was 5.

When Peter Paul Rubens died, Galileo Galilei was 76, René Descartes was 44, Molière was 18, John Locke was 7 and Rembrandt was 33.

Born during Peter Paul Rubens’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France, Benedictus de Spinoza and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born 3 years after Peter Paul Rubens died, Michelangelo died 13 years before Peter Paul Rubens was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born 6 years after Peter Paul Rubens died and Matsuo Bashō was born 4 years after Peter Paul Rubens died.

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All 64 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  34. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  35. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  47. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  48. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  51. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  61. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  62. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  63. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  64. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644