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Antonio Vivaldi

Italian composer and violinist

Born 4 March 1678 · died 28 July 1741, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Antonio Vivaldi?

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When Antonio Vivaldi was born, Isaac Newton was 35, John Locke was 45, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 31, Matsuo Bashō was 33 or 34 and Louis XIV of France was 39.

When Antonio Vivaldi died, George Washington was 9, Johann Sebastian Bach was 56, Voltaire was 46, Immanuel Kant was 17 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 29.

Born during Antonio Vivaldi’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born 8 years after Antonio Vivaldi died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 15 years after Antonio Vivaldi died, Molière died 5 years before Antonio Vivaldi was born and Thomas Jefferson was born 2 years after Antonio Vivaldi died.

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  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  28. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  29. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  32. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  35. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  38. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  48. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  49. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  50. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  51. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  53. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  55. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  56. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  57. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  58. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  59. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  60. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  61. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  62. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  63. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  64. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  65. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  66. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  67. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  68. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  69. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  70. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  71. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810