Who Was Alive

Edmond Halley

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist

Born 8 November 1656 · died 25 January 1742, aged 85

Who was alive at the same time as Edmond Halley?

  1. Diego Velázquez
  2. Rembrandt
  3. Molière
  4. Blaise Pascal
  5. John Locke
  6. Benedictus de Spinoza
  7. Louis XIV of France
  8. Isaac Newton
  9. Matsuo Bashō
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  11. Edmond Halley
  12. Peter the Great
  13. Antonio Vivaldi
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach
  15. Voltaire
  16. Benjamin Franklin
  17. Leonhard Euler
  18. Carl Linnaeus
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  20. Adam Smith
  21. Immanuel Kant
  22. James Cook
  23. George Washington
  24. John Adams
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When Edmond Halley was born, Isaac Newton was 13, Molière was 34, John Locke was 24, Rembrandt was 50 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 10.

When Edmond Halley died, George Washington was 9, Johann Sebastian Bach was 56, Voltaire was 47, Immanuel Kant was 17 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 29.

Born during Edmond Halley’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 7 years after Edmond Halley died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 14 years after Edmond Halley died, Galileo Galilei died 14 years before Edmond Halley was born and René Descartes died 6 years before Edmond Halley was born.

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All 85 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. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  15. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  22. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  26. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  27. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  32. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  35. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  36. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  37. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  38. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  39. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  40. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  41. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  42. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  43. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  44. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  45. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  46. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  48. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  49. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  50. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  51. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  52. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  53. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  54. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  55. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  56. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  57. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  59. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  60. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  61. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  62. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  63. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  64. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  65. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  66. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  67. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  68. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  69. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  70. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  71. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  72. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  73. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  74. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  75. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  76. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  77. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  78. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  79. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  80. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  81. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  82. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  83. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  84. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  85. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810