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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

French economist

Born 10 May 1727 · died 18 March 1781, aged 53
Also known as Ann Rober Jak Türqo, Turgot

Who was alive at the same time as Anne Robert Jacques Turgot?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, 1727 – 1781
  10. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  11. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  12. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 42, Voltaire was 32, Immanuel Kant was 3, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 and Adam Smith was 3.

When Anne Robert Jacques Turgot died, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

Born during Anne Robert Jacques Turgot’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died months before Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was born, Lord Byron was born about 7 years after Anne Robert Jacques Turgot died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 11 years before Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was born and Louis XIV died about 12 years before Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

293 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1754.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  26. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  39. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  40. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  41. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  42. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  43. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  44. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  45. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  46. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  47. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  48. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  49. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  50. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  51. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  52. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  53. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  54. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  55. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  56. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  57. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  58. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  59. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  60. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  61. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  62. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  63. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  64. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  65. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  66. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  67. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  68. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  69. George III 1738 – 1820
  70. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  71. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  72. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  73. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  74. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  75. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  76. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  77. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  78. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  79. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  80. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  81. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  82. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  83. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  84. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  85. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  86. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  87. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  88. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  89. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  90. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  91. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  92. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  93. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  94. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  95. William IV 1765 – 1837
  96. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  97. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  98. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  99. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  100. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  101. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  102. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  103. George IV 1762 – 1830
  104. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  105. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  106. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  107. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  108. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  109. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  110. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  111. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  112. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  113. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  114. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  115. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  116. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  117. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  118. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  119. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  120. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  121. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  122. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  123. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  124. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  125. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  126. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  127. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  128. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  129. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  130. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  131. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  132. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  133. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  134. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  135. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  136. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  137. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  138. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  139. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  140. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  141. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  142. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  143. Joseph II 1741 – 1790
  144. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  145. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  146. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778 – 1850
  147. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  148. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  149. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  150. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789