Who Was Alive

David Hume

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Born 26 April 1711 (Julian calendar) · died 25 August 1776, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as David Hume?

  1. Louis XIV of France
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach
  5. Voltaire
  6. Benjamin Franklin
  7. Leonhard Euler
  8. Carl Linnaeus
  9. David Hume
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  11. Adam Smith
  12. Immanuel Kant
  13. James Cook
  14. George Washington
  15. John Adams
  16. Thomas Jefferson
  17. Francisco Goya
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  20. Friedrich Schiller
  21. Ludwig van Beethoven
  22. Napoleon
  23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  24. Jane Austen
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When David Hume was born, Isaac Newton was 68, Johann Sebastian Bach was 26, Voltaire was 16, Benjamin Franklin was 5 and Carl Linnaeus was 3.

When David Hume died, Napoleon was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 44, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 20 and Voltaire was 81.

Born during David Hume’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born 12 years after David Hume died, John Locke died 7 years before David Hume was born, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about a year after David Hume died and Simón Bolívar was born 7 years after David Hume died.

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All 116 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  33. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  37. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  40. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  41. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  42. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  43. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  44. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  45. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  46. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  47. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  48. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  49. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  50. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  51. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  52. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  53. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  54. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  55. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  56. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  57. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  58. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  59. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  60. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  61. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  62. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  63. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  64. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  65. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  66. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  67. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  68. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  69. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  70. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  71. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  72. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  73. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  74. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  75. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  76. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  77. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  78. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  79. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  80. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  81. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  82. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  83. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  84. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  85. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  86. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  87. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  88. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  89. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  90. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  91. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  92. William IV 1765 – 1837
  93. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  94. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  95. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  96. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  97. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  98. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  99. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  100. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  101. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  102. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  103. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  104. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  105. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  106. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  107. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  108. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  109. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  110. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  111. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  112. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  113. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  114. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  115. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  116. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817