Who Was Alive
Antonio Stradivari
Possibly Francesco Gialdisi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Antonio Stradivari

Italian maker

Born c. 1644 · died 18 December 1737
Also known as Stradivarius, Antonius Stradivarius, Antoine Stradivari

Who was alive at the same time as Antonio Stradivari?

  1. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  2. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  3. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  4. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  5. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  6. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  7. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  8. Antonio Stradivari, c. 1644 – 1737
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  13. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  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

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When Antonio Stradivari died, George Washington was 5, Johann Sebastian Bach was 52, Voltaire was 43, Immanuel Kant was 13 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 25.

Born during Antonio Stradivari’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 12 years after Antonio Stradivari died, Thomas Jefferson was born about 6 years after Antonio Stradivari died, Johannes Kepler died about 11 years before Antonio Stradivari was born and Francisco Goya was born about 9 years after Antonio Stradivari died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

238 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Antonio Stradivari. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1692.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Molière 1622 – 1673
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  13. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  25. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  28. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  29. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  30. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  31. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  32. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  33. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  34. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  35. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  36. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  37. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  38. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  39. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  40. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  41. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  42. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  43. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  44. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  45. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  46. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  47. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  49. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  50. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  51. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  52. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  53. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  54. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  55. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  57. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  59. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  60. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  61. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  62. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  63. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  64. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  65. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  66. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  67. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  68. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  69. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  70. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  71. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  72. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  73. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  74. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  75. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  76. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  77. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  78. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  79. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  80. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  81. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  82. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  83. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  84. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  85. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  86. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  87. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  88. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  89. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  90. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  91. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  92. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  93. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  94. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  95. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  96. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  97. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  98. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  99. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  100. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  101. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  102. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  103. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  104. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  105. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  106. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  107. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  108. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  109. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  110. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  111. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  112. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  113. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  114. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  115. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  116. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  117. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  118. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  119. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  120. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  121. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  122. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  123. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  124. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  125. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  126. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  127. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  128. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  129. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  130. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  131. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  132. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  133. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  134. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  135. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  136. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  137. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  138. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  139. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  140. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  141. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  142. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  143. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  144. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  145. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  146. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  147. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  148. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  149. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  150. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767