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Baron d'Holbach
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Baron d'Holbach

German-born philosopher

Born 8 December 1723 · died 21 January 1789, aged 65
Also known as Baron von Holbach, Baron Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach, Paul Heinrich Holbach

Who was alive at the same time as Baron d'Holbach?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Baron d'Holbach, 1723 – 1789
  10. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Baron d'Holbach was born, Isaac Newton was 80, Johann Sebastian Bach was 38, Voltaire was 29, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 11 and Adam Smith was under a year old.

When Baron d'Holbach died, Napoleon was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 39, George Washington was 56, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 32 and Immanuel Kant was 64.

Born during Baron d'Holbach’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson and Lord Byron.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 13 years after Baron d'Holbach died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 10 years after Baron d'Holbach died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 7 years before Baron d'Holbach was born and Louis XIV died about 8 years before Baron d'Holbach was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

326 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Baron d'Holbach. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1756.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  35. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  43. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  44. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  45. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  46. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  47. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  48. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  49. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  50. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  51. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  52. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  53. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  54. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  55. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  56. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  57. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  58. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  59. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  60. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  61. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  62. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  64. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  65. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  66. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  67. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  68. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  69. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  70. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  71. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  72. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  73. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  74. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  75. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  76. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  77. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  78. George III 1738 – 1820
  79. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  80. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  81. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  82. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  83. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  84. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  85. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  86. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  87. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  88. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  89. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  90. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  91. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  92. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  93. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  94. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  95. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  96. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  97. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  98. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  99. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  100. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  101. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  102. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  103. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  104. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  105. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  106. William IV 1765 – 1837
  107. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  108. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  109. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  110. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  111. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  112. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  113. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  114. George IV 1762 – 1830
  115. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  116. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  117. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  118. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  119. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  120. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  121. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  122. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  123. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  124. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  125. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  126. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  127. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  128. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  129. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  130. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  131. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  132. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  133. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  134. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  135. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  136. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  137. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  138. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  139. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  140. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  141. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  142. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  143. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  144. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  145. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  146. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  147. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  148. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  149. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  150. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826