Who Was Alive

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist

Born 30 November 1667 · died 19 October 1745, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Jonathan Swift?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. Rembrandt
  3. Molière
  4. John Locke
  5. Benedictus de Spinoza
  6. Louis XIV of France
  7. Isaac Newton
  8. Matsuo Bashō
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  10. Jonathan Swift
  11. Peter the Great
  12. Antonio Vivaldi
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach
  14. Voltaire
  15. Benjamin Franklin
  16. Leonhard Euler
  17. Carl Linnaeus
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  19. Adam Smith
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. James Cook
  22. George Washington
  23. John Adams
  24. Thomas Jefferson
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When Jonathan Swift was born, Isaac Newton was 24, Molière was 45, John Locke was 35, Rembrandt was 61 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 21.

When Jonathan Swift died, George Washington was 13, Johann Sebastian Bach was 60, Voltaire was 50, Immanuel Kant was 21 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 33.

Born during Jonathan Swift’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born 4 years after Jonathan Swift died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 11 years after Jonathan Swift died, Blaise Pascal died 5 years before Jonathan Swift was born and Francisco Goya was born about a year after Jonathan Swift died.

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All 83 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  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. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  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. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  30. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  31. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  32. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  33. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  34. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  35. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  36. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  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. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  44. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  45. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  46. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  47. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  48. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  49. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  50. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  51. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  52. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  53. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  54. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  55. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  56. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  57. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  58. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  59. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  60. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  61. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  62. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  63. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  64. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  65. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  66. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  67. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  68. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  69. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  70. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  71. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  72. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  73. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  74. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  75. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  76. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  77. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  78. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  79. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  80. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  81. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  82. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  83. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810