Who Was Alive

Alexander Pope

English poet

Born 21 May 1688 (Julian calendar) · died 30 May 1744 (Julian calendar), aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Pope?

  1. John Locke
  2. Louis XIV of France
  3. Isaac Newton
  4. Matsuo Bashō
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  6. Jonathan Swift
  7. Peter the Great
  8. Antonio Vivaldi
  9. George Frideric Handel
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach
  11. Alexander Pope
  12. Montesquieu
  13. Voltaire
  14. Benjamin Franklin
  15. Leonhard Euler
  16. Carl Linnaeus
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  18. Adam Smith
  19. Immanuel Kant
  20. James Cook
  21. George Washington
  22. John Adams
  23. James Watt
  24. Thomas Jefferson
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When Alexander Pope was born, Isaac Newton was 45, Johann Sebastian Bach was 3, John Locke was 55, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 41 and Matsuo Bashō was 43 or 44.

When Alexander Pope died, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 49, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 31.

Born during Alexander Pope’s lifetime: George Washington, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born 5 years after Alexander Pope died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 12 years after Alexander Pope died, Francisco Goya was born 2 years after Alexander Pope died and Benedictus de Spinoza died 11 years before Alexander Pope was born.

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All 69 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  24. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  25. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  26. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  27. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  28. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  29. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  30. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  31. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  32. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  33. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  34. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  35. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  36. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  39. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  40. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  46. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  47. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  48. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  49. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  50. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  54. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  55. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  58. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  61. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  62. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  63. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  64. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  65. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  66. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  67. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  68. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  69. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810