Who Was Alive
Antoine Watteau
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Antoine Watteau

French painter

Born 10 October 1684 · died 18 July 1721, aged 36
Also known as Jean-Antoine Watteau, Vato, Antoine Vatteau

Who was alive at the same time as Antoine Watteau?

  1. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  2. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  3. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  4. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  5. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  7. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  8. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  9. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  10. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  11. Antoine Watteau, 1684 – 1721
  12. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  14. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  15. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  16. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  17. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  18. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  19. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  20. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784
  21. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  22. Frederick the Great, 1712 – 1786
  23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  24. Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784

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When Antoine Watteau was born, Isaac Newton was 41, John Locke was 52, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 38, Matsuo Bashō was 39 or 40 and Louis XIV was 46.

When Antoine Watteau died, Isaac Newton was 78, Johann Sebastian Bach was 36, Voltaire was 26, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 9 and Benjamin Franklin was 15.

Born during Antoine Watteau’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Montesquieu and George Frideric Handel.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 11 years after Antoine Watteau died, Immanuel Kant was born about 3 years after Antoine Watteau died, Molière died about 11 years before Antoine Watteau was born and Adam Smith was born about 2 years after Antoine Watteau died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

151 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Antoine Watteau. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1703.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  6. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  15. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  16. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  17. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  18. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  21. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  22. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  28. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  29. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  32. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  33. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  34. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  35. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  36. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  37. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  38. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  39. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  40. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  41. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  42. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  43. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  44. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  45. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  46. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  47. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  48. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  49. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  50. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  51. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  52. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  53. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  54. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  55. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  56. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  57. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  58. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  59. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  60. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  61. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  62. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  63. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  64. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  65. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  66. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  67. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  68. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  69. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  70. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  71. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  72. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  73. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  74. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  75. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  76. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  77. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  78. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  79. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  80. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  81. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  82. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  83. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  84. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  85. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  86. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  87. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  88. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  89. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  90. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  91. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  92. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  93. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  94. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  95. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  96. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  97. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  98. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  99. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  100. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  101. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  102. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  103. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  104. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  105. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  106. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  107. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  108. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  109. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  110. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  111. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  112. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  113. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  114. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  115. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  116. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  117. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  118. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  119. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  120. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  121. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  122. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  123. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  124. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  125. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  126. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  127. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  128. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  129. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  130. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  131. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  132. Peter III of Portugal 1717 – 1786
  133. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  134. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  135. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  136. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  137. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  138. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  139. Émilie du Châtelet 1706 – 1749
  140. Ferdinand VI 1713 – 1759
  141. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  142. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  143. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  144. Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709 – 1751
  145. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717 – 1768
  146. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  147. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  148. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  149. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  150. Louis I of Spain 1707 – 1724