Who Was Alive

Urban VIII

235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644

Born 5 April 1568 · died 29 July 1644, aged 76

Who was alive at the same time as Urban VIII?

  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. Galileo Galilei
  9. William Shakespeare
  10. Urban VIII
  11. Johannes Kepler
  12. Peter Paul Rubens
  13. Thomas Hobbes
  14. René Descartes
  15. Diego Velázquez
  16. Rembrandt
  17. John Milton
  18. Jean de La Fontaine
  19. Molière
  20. Blaise Pascal
  21. John Locke
  22. Benedictus de Spinoza
  23. Louis XIV of France
  24. Isaac Newton
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 Urban VIII was born, William Shakespeare was 3 or 4, Galileo Galilei was 4, Francis Bacon was 7, Elizabeth I of England was 34 and Akbar was 25.

When Urban VIII died, Isaac Newton was 1, René Descartes was 48, Molière was 22, John Locke was 11 and Rembrandt was 38.

Born during Urban VIII’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died 4 years before Urban VIII was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born 2 years after Urban VIII died, Jacques Cartier died 11 years before Urban VIII was born and Suleiman the Magnificent died 2 years before Urban VIII was born.

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All 68 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. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  29. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  45. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  46. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  47. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  53. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  54. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  55. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  56. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  57. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  58. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  61. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  62. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  63. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  64. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  65. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  66. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  67. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665