Who Was Alive

Peter the Great

Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725

Born 30 May 1672 (Julian calendar) · died 28 January 1725 (Julian calendar), aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Peter the Great?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. John Milton
  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. George Frideric Handel
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach
  15. Montesquieu
  16. Voltaire
  17. Benjamin Franklin
  18. Leonhard Euler
  19. Carl Linnaeus
  20. David Hume
  21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  22. Denis Diderot
  23. Adam Smith
  24. Immanuel Kant
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Peter the Great was born, Isaac Newton was 29, Molière was 50, John Locke was 39, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 25 and Matsuo Bashō was 27 or 28.

When Peter the Great died, Isaac Newton was 82, Johann Sebastian Bach was 39, Voltaire was 30, Immanuel Kant was under a year old and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 12.

Born during Peter the Great’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born 7 years after Peter the Great died, Rembrandt died 3 years before Peter the Great was born, Blaise Pascal died 10 years before Peter the Great was born and John Adams was born 10 years after Peter the Great died.

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All 55 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  26. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  27. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  28. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  34. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  35. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  36. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  37. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  38. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  41. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  42. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  43. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  44. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  50. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  51. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  52. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  53. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  54. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  55. Pius VI 1717 – 1799