Who Was Alive

George Berkeley

Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop

Born 12 March 1685 · died 14 January 1753, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as George Berkeley?

  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 Berkeley
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach
  11. Voltaire
  12. Benjamin Franklin
  13. Leonhard Euler
  14. Carl Linnaeus
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  16. Adam Smith
  17. Immanuel Kant
  18. James Cook
  19. George Washington
  20. John Adams
  21. Thomas Jefferson
  22. Francisco Goya
  23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. James Madison
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When George Berkeley was born, Isaac Newton was 42, John Locke was 52, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 38, Matsuo Bashō was 40 or 41 and Louis XIV of France was 46.

When George Berkeley died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 3, George Washington was 20, Voltaire was 58, Immanuel Kant was 28 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 40.

Born during George Berkeley’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 3 years after George Berkeley died, Molière died 12 years before George Berkeley was born, Friedrich Schiller was born 6 years after George Berkeley died and Benedictus de Spinoza died 8 years before George Berkeley was born.

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All 79 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  26. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  29. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  30. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  31. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  32. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  33. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  34. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  35. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  36. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  37. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  38. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  39. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  40. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  41. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  42. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  43. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  44. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  45. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  46. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  47. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  48. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  49. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  50. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  51. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  52. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  53. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  54. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  55. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  56. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  57. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  58. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  59. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  60. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  61. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  62. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  63. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  64. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  65. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  66. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  67. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  68. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  69. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  70. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  71. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  72. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  73. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  74. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  75. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  76. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  77. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  78. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  79. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810