Who Was Alive

George Frideric Handel

German-British Baroque composer

Born 23 February 1685 (Julian calendar) · died 14 April 1759, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as George Frideric Handel?

  1. John Locke
  2. Louis XIV of France
  3. Isaac Newton
  4. Matsuo Bashō
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  6. Peter the Great
  7. Antonio Vivaldi
  8. George Frideric Handel
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach
  10. Voltaire
  11. Benjamin Franklin
  12. Leonhard Euler
  13. Carl Linnaeus
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  15. Adam Smith
  16. Immanuel Kant
  17. James Cook
  18. George Washington
  19. John Adams
  20. Thomas Jefferson
  21. Francisco Goya
  22. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. James Madison
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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When George Frideric Handel 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 Frideric Handel died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 34.

Born during George Frideric Handel’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born 10 years after George Frideric Handel died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born 9 years after George Frideric Handel died, Molière died 12 years before George Frideric Handel was born and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born 11 years after George Frideric Handel died.

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All 90 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  28. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  29. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  30. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  31. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  32. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  33. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
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  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
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  60. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
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