Who Was Alive

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian

Born 6 June 1606 · died 1 October 1684, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre Corneille?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. Galileo Galilei
  4. William Shakespeare
  5. Johannes Kepler
  6. Peter Paul Rubens
  7. Thomas Hobbes
  8. René Descartes
  9. Diego Velázquez
  10. Pierre Corneille
  11. Rembrandt
  12. John Milton
  13. Jean de La Fontaine
  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
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 Pierre Corneille was born, William Shakespeare was 42, Galileo Galilei was 42, René Descartes was 10, Francis Bacon was 45 and Johannes Kepler was 34.

When Pierre Corneille died, Isaac Newton was 41, John Locke was 52, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 38, Matsuo Bashō was 39 or 40 and Louis XIV of France was 46.

Born during Pierre Corneille’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 about a year after Pierre Corneille died, Voltaire was born 10 years after Pierre Corneille died, Elizabeth I of England died 3 years before Pierre Corneille was born and Akbar died about a year before Pierre Corneille was born.

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All 60 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. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  37. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  45. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  50. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  51. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  52. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  60. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745