Who Was Alive

Were Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler alive at the same time?

Yes. Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler were alive at the same time for 19 years, from 1707 to 1727.

Isaac Newton was 64 when Leonhard Euler was born.

Leonhard Euler was 19 when Isaac Newton died, aged 84.

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist

Born 25 December 1642 (Julian calendar) · died 20 March 1727 (Julian calendar), aged 84

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer

Born 15 April 1707 · died 18 September 1783, aged 76

  1. René Descartes
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Leonhard Euler
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Napoleon
Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.