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Anna of Russia
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Anna of Russia

Emperor of all the Russias

Born 28 January 1693 (Julian calendar) · died 17 October 1740 (Julian calendar), aged 47
Also known as Anna I of Russia, Anna Ioannovna, Anna Ivanovna

Who was alive at the same time as Anna of Russia?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  7. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  8. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  9. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  11. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  12. Anna of Russia, 1693 – 1740
  13. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  14. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  15. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  16. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  17. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  20. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  21. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  22. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  23. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  24. James Watt, 1736 – 1819

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When Anna of Russia was born, Isaac Newton was 50, Johann Sebastian Bach was 7, John Locke was 60, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 46 and Matsuo Bashō was 48 or 49.

When Anna of Russia died, George Washington was 8, Johann Sebastian Bach was 55, Voltaire was 45, Immanuel Kant was 16 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 28.

Born during Anna of Russia’s lifetime: George Washington, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 9 years after Anna of Russia died, Thomas Jefferson was born about 3 years after Anna of Russia died, Francisco Goya was born about 6 years after Anna of Russia died and James Madison was born about 11 years after Anna of Russia died.

Where Anna of Russia’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

184 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anna of Russia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1717.

  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. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  32. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  35. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  36. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  37. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  38. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  39. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  42. George III 1738 – 1820
  43. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  44. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  45. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  46. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  47. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  48. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  49. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  52. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  53. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  54. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  55. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  58. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  59. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  60. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  61. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  65. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  66. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  67. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  68. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  69. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  70. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  71. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  72. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  73. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  74. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  75. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  76. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  77. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  78. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  79. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  80. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  81. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  82. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  83. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  84. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  85. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  86. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  87. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  88. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  89. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  90. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  91. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  92. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  93. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  94. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  95. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  96. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  97. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  98. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  99. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  100. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  101. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  102. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  103. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  104. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  105. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  106. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  107. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  108. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  109. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  110. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  111. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  112. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  113. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  114. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  115. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  116. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  117. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  118. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  119. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  120. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  121. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  122. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  123. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  124. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  125. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  126. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  127. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  128. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  129. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  130. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  131. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  132. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  133. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  134. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  135. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  136. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  137. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  138. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  139. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  140. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  141. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  142. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  143. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  144. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  145. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  146. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  147. Ivan VI of Russia 1740 – 1764
  148. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  149. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  150. Osman III 1699 – 1757