Who Was Alive

Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

Born 25 December 1717 · died 29 August 1799, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Pius VI?

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

When Pius VI died, Napoleon was 30, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 50, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Alexander Pushkin was under a year old.

Born during Pius VI’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Pushkin and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 10 years after Pius VI died, Charles Darwin was born 10 years after Pius VI died, Victor Hugo was born 3 years after Pius VI died and Charles Dickens was born 13 years after Pius VI died.

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All 155 contemporaries we track

  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  27. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  30. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  31. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  32. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  35. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  36. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  37. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  38. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  39. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  40. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  41. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  42. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  43. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  44. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  45. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  46. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  47. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  48. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  49. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  50. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  51. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  52. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  53. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  54. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  55. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  56. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  57. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  58. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  59. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  60. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  61. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  62. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  63. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  64. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  65. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  66. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  67. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  68. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  69. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  70. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  71. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  72. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  73. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  74. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  75. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  76. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  77. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  78. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  79. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  80. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  81. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  82. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  83. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  84. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  85. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  86. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  87. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  88. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  89. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  90. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  91. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  92. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  93. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  94. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  95. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  96. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  97. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  98. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  99. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  100. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  101. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  102. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  103. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  104. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  105. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  106. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  107. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  108. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  109. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  110. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  111. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  112. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  113. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  114. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  115. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  116. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  117. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  118. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  119. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  120. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  121. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  122. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  123. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  124. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  125. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  126. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  127. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  128. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  129. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  130. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  131. William IV 1765 – 1837
  132. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  133. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  134. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  135. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  136. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  137. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  138. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  139. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  140. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  141. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  142. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  143. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  144. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  145. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  146. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  147. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  148. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  149. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  150. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788

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