Who Was Alive
Ahmad Shah Durrani
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Ahmad Shah Durrani

Poet

Born c. 1722 · died 16 October 1772
Also known as Ahmed Shahe Durrani, Ahmed Shah

Who was alive at the same time as Ahmad Shah Durrani?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  3. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  6. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  7. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  8. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  10. Ahmad Shah Durrani, c. 1722 – 1772
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  17. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  19. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  21. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Ahmad Shah Durrani died, Napoleon was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 23, George Washington was 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 16 and Voltaire was 77.

Born during Ahmad Shah Durrani’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 4 years before Ahmad Shah Durrani was born, Jane Austen was born about 3 years after Ahmad Shah Durrani died, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 5 years after Ahmad Shah Durrani died and Louis XIV died about 5 years before Ahmad Shah Durrani was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

253 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ahmad Shah Durrani. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1748.

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  25. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  26. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  27. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  28. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  29. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  30. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  31. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  32. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  33. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  34. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  35. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  36. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  37. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  38. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  39. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  40. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  41. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  42. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  43. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  44. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  45. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  46. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  47. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  48. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  49. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  50. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  51. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  52. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  53. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  54. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  55. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  56. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  57. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  58. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  59. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  60. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  61. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  62. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  63. George III 1738 – 1820
  64. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  65. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  66. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  67. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  68. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  69. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  70. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  71. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  72. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  73. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  74. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  75. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  77. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  78. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  79. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  80. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  81. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  82. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  83. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  84. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  85. William IV 1765 – 1837
  86. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  87. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  88. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  89. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  90. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  91. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  92. George IV 1762 – 1830
  93. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  94. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  95. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  96. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  97. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  98. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  99. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  100. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  101. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  102. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  103. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  104. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  105. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  106. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  107. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  108. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  109. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  110. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  111. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  112. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  113. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  114. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  115. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  116. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  117. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  118. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  119. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  120. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  121. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  122. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  123. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  124. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  125. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  126. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  127. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  128. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  129. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  130. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  131. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  132. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  133. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  134. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  135. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  136. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  137. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  138. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  139. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  140. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  141. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  142. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  143. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  144. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  145. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  146. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  147. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  148. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  149. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  150. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771