Who Was Alive

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher

Born 21 June 1646 (Julian calendar) · died 14 November 1716, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. René Descartes
  3. Diego Velázquez
  4. Rembrandt
  5. Molière
  6. Blaise Pascal
  7. John Locke
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza
  9. Louis XIV of France
  10. Isaac Newton
  11. Matsuo Bashō
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  13. Jonathan Swift
  14. Peter the Great
  15. Antonio Vivaldi
  16. George Frideric Handel
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach
  18. Montesquieu
  19. Voltaire
  20. Benjamin Franklin
  21. Leonhard Euler
  22. Carl Linnaeus
  23. David Hume
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born, Isaac Newton was 3, René Descartes was 50, Molière was 24, John Locke was 13 and Rembrandt was 39.

When Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died, Isaac Newton was 73, Johann Sebastian Bach was 31, Voltaire was 21, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 4 and Benjamin Franklin was 10.

Born during Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died 4 years before Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born, Immanuel Kant was born 8 years after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died, Adam Smith was born 7 years after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died and James Cook was born 12 years after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died.

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All 63 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  10. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  25. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  28. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  31. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  32. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  33. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  38. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  39. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
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  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  44. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  45. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  46. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  50. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  51. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  52. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  53. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  54. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
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  56. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
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  58. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
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