Who Was Alive
Augustus II the Strong
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Augustus II the Strong

King of Poland

Born 12 May 1670 · died 1 February 1733, aged 62
Also known as Hercules saxonicus, August II Mocny, Augustus the Strong

Who was alive at the same time as Augustus II the Strong?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  3. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  4. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  5. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  6. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  7. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  9. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  10. Augustus II the Strong, 1670 – 1733
  11. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  12. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  13. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  15. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  16. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  17. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  18. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  19. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  21. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  22. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  23. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  24. George Washington, 1732 – 1799

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When Augustus II the Strong was born, Isaac Newton was 27, Molière was 48, John Locke was 37, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 23 and Matsuo Bashō was 25 or 26.

When Augustus II the Strong died, George Washington was under a year old, Johann Sebastian Bach was 47, Voltaire was 38, Immanuel Kant was 8 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 20.

Born during Augustus II the Strong’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Jefferson was born about 10 years after Augustus II the Strong died, Rembrandt died about a year before Augustus II the Strong was born, Blaise Pascal died about 8 years before Augustus II the Strong was born and John Adams was born about 2 years after Augustus II the Strong died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

197 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Augustus II the Strong. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1702.

  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. Molière 1622 – 1673
  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. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  25. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  26. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  27. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  28. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  29. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  30. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  31. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  32. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  33. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  34. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  35. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  36. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  37. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  40. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  44. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  47. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  48. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  49. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  52. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  59. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  60. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  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. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  74. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  75. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  76. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  77. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  78. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  79. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  80. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  81. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  82. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  83. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  84. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  85. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  86. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  87. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  88. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  89. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  90. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  91. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  92. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  93. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  94. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  95. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  96. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  97. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  98. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  99. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  100. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  101. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  102. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  103. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  104. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  105. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  106. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  107. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  108. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  109. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  110. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  111. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  112. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  113. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  114. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  115. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  116. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  117. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  118. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  119. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  120. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  121. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  122. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  123. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  124. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  125. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  126. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  127. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  128. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  129. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  130. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  131. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  132. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  133. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  134. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  135. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  136. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  137. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  138. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  139. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  140. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  141. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  142. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  143. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  144. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  145. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  146. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  147. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  148. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  149. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  150. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764