Who Was Alive

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher

Born 5 April 1588 · died 4 December 1679, aged 91

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Hobbes?

  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. Rembrandt
  13. John Milton
  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 Thomas Hobbes was born, William Shakespeare was 23, Galileo Galilei was 24, Francis Bacon was 27, Elizabeth I of England was 54 and Johannes Kepler was 16.

When Thomas Hobbes died, Isaac Newton was 36, John Locke was 47, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 33, Matsuo Bashō was 34 or 35 and Louis XIV of France was 41.

Born during Thomas Hobbes’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born 6 years after Thomas Hobbes died, Voltaire was born 15 years after Thomas Hobbes died, George Frideric Handel was born 6 years after Thomas Hobbes died and Montesquieu was born 10 years after Thomas Hobbes died.

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All 71 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. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  24. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  25. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  26. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  27. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  28. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  31. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  34. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  40. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  41. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  42. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  43. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  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. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  56. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  57. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  58. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  59. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  60. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  61. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  62. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  63. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  64. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  65. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  66. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  67. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  68. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  69. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  71. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745