Who Was Alive

Robert Walpole

British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford

Born 26 August 1676 (Julian calendar) · died 18 March 1745 (Julian calendar), aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Walpole?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. John Locke
  3. Benedictus de Spinoza
  4. Louis XIV of France
  5. Isaac Newton
  6. Matsuo Bashō
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  8. Jonathan Swift
  9. Peter the Great
  10. Robert Walpole
  11. Antonio Vivaldi
  12. George Frideric Handel
  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 Robert Walpole was born, Isaac Newton was 33, John Locke was 43, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 30, Matsuo Bashō was 31 or 32 and Louis XIV of France was 38.

When Robert Walpole died, George Washington was 13, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 50, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 32.

Born during Robert Walpole’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 Robert Walpole died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 11 years after Robert Walpole died, Molière died 3 years before Robert Walpole was born and Rembrandt died 7 years before Robert Walpole was born.

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All 78 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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  26. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  27. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  28. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  31. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  32. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  33. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  34. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  35. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  36. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  37. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  38. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  39. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  40. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  41. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  42. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  43. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  44. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  45. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  46. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  47. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  48. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  49. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  50. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  51. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  52. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  53. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  54. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  55. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  56. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  57. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  58. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  59. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  60. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  61. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  62. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  63. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  64. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  65. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  66. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  67. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  68. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  69. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  70. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  71. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  72. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  73. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  74. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  75. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  76. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  77. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  78. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810