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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

French writer and philosopher

Born 11 February 1657 · died 9 January 1757, aged 99
Also known as Bernard Le Bovije Fontenel, Bernardo di Fontenelle, Fontenelle

Who was alive at the same time as Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle?

  1. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  2. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  3. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  4. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  5. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  6. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  7. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  9. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1657 – 1757
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  11. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  12. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  13. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  14. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  17. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  18. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  19. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  20. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  21. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  22. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791

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When Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle was born, Isaac Newton was 14, Molière was 35, John Locke was 24, Rembrandt was 50 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 10.

When Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 7, George Washington was 24, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was under a year old, Voltaire was 62 and Immanuel Kant was 32.

Born during Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 12 years after Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 11 years after Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle died, René Descartes died about 7 years before Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle was born and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born about 13 years after Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

283 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1707.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Molière 1622 – 1673
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  15. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  18. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  28. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  29. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  30. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  31. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  37. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  40. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  41. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  42. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  43. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  44. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  45. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  46. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  47. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  48. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  49. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  50. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  51. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  52. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  53. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  54. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  55. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  56. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  57. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  58. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  59. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  60. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  61. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  62. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  63. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  64. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  65. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  66. George III 1738 – 1820
  67. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  68. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  69. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  70. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  71. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  72. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  73. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  74. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  75. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  76. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  77. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  78. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  79. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  80. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  81. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  82. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  83. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  84. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  85. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  86. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  87. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  88. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  89. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  90. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  91. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  92. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  93. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  94. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  95. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  96. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  97. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  98. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  99. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  100. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  101. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  102. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  103. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  104. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  105. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  106. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  107. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  108. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  109. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  110. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  111. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  112. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  113. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  114. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  115. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  116. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  117. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  118. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  119. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  120. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  121. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  122. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  123. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  124. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  125. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  126. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  127. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  128. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  129. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  130. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  131. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  132. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  133. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  134. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  135. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  136. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  137. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  138. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  139. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  140. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  141. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  142. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  143. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  144. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  145. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  146. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  147. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  148. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  149. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  150. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724