Who Was Alive

Anders Celsius

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist

Born 27 November 1701 (Julian calendar) · died 25 April 1744 (Julian calendar), aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Anders Celsius?

  1. John Locke
  2. Louis XIV of France
  3. Isaac Newton
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  5. Jonathan Swift
  6. Peter the Great
  7. Antonio Vivaldi
  8. George Frideric Handel
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach
  10. Montesquieu
  11. Voltaire
  12. Anders Celsius
  13. Benjamin Franklin
  14. Leonhard Euler
  15. Carl Linnaeus
  16. David Hume
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  18. Adam Smith
  19. Immanuel Kant
  20. James Cook
  21. George Washington
  22. John Adams
  23. James Watt
  24. Thomas Jefferson
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When Anders Celsius was born, Isaac Newton was 58, Johann Sebastian Bach was 16, Voltaire was 7, John Locke was 69 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 55.

When Anders Celsius died, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 49, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 31.

Born during Anders Celsius’s lifetime: George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born 5 years after Anders Celsius died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 12 years after Anders Celsius died, Matsuo Bashō died 7 years before Anders Celsius was born and Francisco Goya was born 2 years after Anders Celsius died.

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All 63 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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  28. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  29. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  30. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  31. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  32. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  35. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  36. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  37. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  40. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  41. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  42. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  43. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  44. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  45. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  46. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  47. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  50. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  51. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  52. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  55. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  56. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  57. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  58. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  59. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  60. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  61. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  62. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  63. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810