Who Was Alive
Ahmed III
Levni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ahmed III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 30 December 1673 · died 1 July 1736, aged 62
Also known as Sultan Ahmed III, Achmet III

Who was alive at the same time as Ahmed III?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  3. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  4. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  5. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  6. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  8. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  9. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  10. Ahmed III, 1673 – 1736
  11. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  12. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  14. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  15. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  16. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  17. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  18. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  20. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  21. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  22. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  23. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  24. John Adams, 1735 – 1826

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ahmed III was born, Isaac Newton was 30, John Locke was 41, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 27, Matsuo Bashō was 28 or 29 and Louis XIV was 35.

When Ahmed III died, George Washington was 4, Johann Sebastian Bach was 51, Voltaire was 41, Immanuel Kant was 12 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 24.

Born during Ahmed III’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 13 years after Ahmed III died, Molière died months before Ahmed III was born, Thomas Jefferson was born about 7 years after Ahmed III died and Rembrandt died about 4 years before Ahmed III was born.

What happened in Ahmed III’s lifetime

Where Ahmed III’s contemporaries were born

Ahmed III is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (81 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Ahmed III

The 150 best-known contemporaries

202 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ahmed III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1705.

  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. 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. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  27. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  28. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  31. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  34. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  35. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  36. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  37. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  38. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  39. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  40. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  41. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  42. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  43. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  44. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  45. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  48. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  49. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  50. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  54. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  55. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  56. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  57. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  58. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  61. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  62. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  63. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  64. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  65. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  66. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  67. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  68. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  69. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  70. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  71. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  72. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  73. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  74. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  75. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  76. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  80. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  81. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  82. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  83. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  84. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  85. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  86. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  87. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  88. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  89. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  90. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  91. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  92. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  93. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  94. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  95. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  96. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  97. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  98. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  99. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  100. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  101. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  102. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  103. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  104. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  105. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  106. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  107. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  108. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  109. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  110. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  111. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  112. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  113. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  114. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  115. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  116. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  117. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  118. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  119. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  120. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  121. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  122. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  123. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  124. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  125. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  126. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  127. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  128. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  129. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  130. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  131. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  132. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  133. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  134. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  135. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  136. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  137. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  138. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  139. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  140. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  141. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  142. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  143. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  144. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  145. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  146. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  147. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  148. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  149. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  150. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762