Who Was Alive

Anne of Great Britain

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714

Born 1665 (Julian calendar) · died 1714 (Julian calendar), aged 49

Who was alive at the same time as Anne of Great Britain?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. Rembrandt
  3. John Milton
  4. Molière
  5. John Locke
  6. Benedictus de Spinoza
  7. Louis XIV of France
  8. Isaac Newton
  9. Matsuo Bashō
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  11. Anne of Great Britain
  12. Jonathan Swift
  13. Peter the Great
  14. Antonio Vivaldi
  15. George Frideric Handel
  16. Johann Sebastian Bach
  17. Montesquieu
  18. Voltaire
  19. Benjamin Franklin
  20. Leonhard Euler
  21. Carl Linnaeus
  22. David Hume
  23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  24. Denis Diderot
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When Anne of Great Britain was born, Isaac Newton was 22, Molière was 43, John Locke was 32, Rembrandt was 58 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 18.

When Anne of Great Britain died, Isaac Newton was 71, Johann Sebastian Bach was 29, Voltaire was 19, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 2 and Benjamin Franklin was 8.

Born during Anne of Great Britain’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes died 15 years before Anne of Great Britain was born, Immanuel Kant was born 10 years after Anne of Great Britain died, Adam Smith was born 9 years after Anne of Great Britain died and Blaise Pascal died 3 years before Anne of Great Britain was born.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  13. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  14. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  26. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  27. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  28. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  34. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  50. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  51. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  52. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  53. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  54. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745