Who Was Alive

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

Born 16 November 1717 · died 29 October 1783, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Le Rond d'Alembert?

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Peter the Great
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Benjamin Franklin
  6. Leonhard Euler
  7. Carl Linnaeus
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
  10. Adam Smith
  11. Immanuel Kant
  12. James Cook
  13. George Washington
  14. John Adams
  15. Thomas Jefferson
  16. Francisco Goya
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  19. Friedrich Schiller
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven
  21. Napoleon
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  23. Jane Austen
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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When Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was born, Isaac Newton was 74, Johann Sebastian Bach was 32, Voltaire was 22, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 5 and Benjamin Franklin was 11.

When Jean Le Rond d'Alembert died, Napoleon was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 34, George Washington was 51, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 27 and Immanuel Kant was 59.

Born during Jean Le Rond d'Alembert’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born 5 years after Jean Le Rond d'Alembert died, John Locke died 13 years before Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about a year before Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was born and Louis XIV of France died 2 years before Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was born.

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  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  33. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
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  48. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  49. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  50. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  51. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  52. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  53. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  54. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  55. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
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  60. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
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  62. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
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  65. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  66. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
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