Who Was Alive

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Born 25 January 1627 · died 31 December 1691, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Boyle?

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Johannes Kepler
  3. Peter Paul Rubens
  4. Thomas Hobbes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Diego Velázquez
  7. Rembrandt
  8. John Milton
  9. Jean de La Fontaine
  10. Molière
  11. Blaise Pascal
  12. Robert Boyle
  13. John Locke
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza
  15. Louis XIV of France
  16. Isaac Newton
  17. Matsuo Bashō
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Jonathan Swift
  20. Peter the Great
  21. Antonio Vivaldi
  22. George Frideric Handel
  23. Johann Sebastian Bach
  24. Montesquieu
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When Robert Boyle was born, Galileo Galilei was 62, René Descartes was 30, Molière was 5, Rembrandt was 20 and Blaise Pascal was 3.

When Robert Boyle died, Isaac Newton was 48, Johann Sebastian Bach was 6, John Locke was 59, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 45 and Matsuo Bashō was 47.

Born during Robert Boyle’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great and Benedictus de Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 11 years before Robert Boyle was born, Voltaire was born 3 years after Robert Boyle died, Miguel de Cervantes died 11 years before Robert Boyle was born and Benjamin Franklin was born 15 years after Robert Boyle died.

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All 58 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  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. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  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. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  28. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  29. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  34. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  35. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  36. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  37. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  43. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  44. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  50. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  54. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  55. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  56. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  58. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745