Who Was Alive
Canaletto
Antonio Visentini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Canaletto

Venetian painter

Born 18 October 1697 · died 20 April 1768, aged 70
Also known as Giovanni Antonio Canal, Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal, Antonio Kanale

Who was alive at the same time as Canaletto?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  8. Canaletto, 1697 – 1768
  9. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  10. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  11. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Canaletto was born, Isaac Newton was 54, Johann Sebastian Bach was 12, Voltaire was 2, John Locke was 65 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 51.

When Canaletto died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 18, George Washington was 36, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 12, Voltaire was 73 and Immanuel Kant was 43.

Born during Canaletto’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about a year after Canaletto died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born months after Canaletto died, Jane Austen was born about 7 years after Canaletto died and Matsuo Bashō died about 3 years before Canaletto was born.

What happened in Canaletto’s lifetime

Where Canaletto’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

271 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Canaletto. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1733.

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  20. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  26. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  39. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  42. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  43. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  44. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  45. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  46. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  47. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  48. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  49. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  50. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  51. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  52. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  53. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  54. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  55. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  56. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  57. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  58. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  59. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  60. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  61. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  62. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  63. George III 1738 – 1820
  64. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  65. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  66. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  67. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  68. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  69. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  70. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  71. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  72. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  73. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  74. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  75. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  77. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  78. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  79. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  80. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  81. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  82. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  83. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  84. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  85. William IV 1765 – 1837
  86. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  87. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  88. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  89. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  90. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  91. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  92. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  93. George IV 1762 – 1830
  94. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  95. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  96. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  97. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  98. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  99. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  100. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  101. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  102. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  103. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  104. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  105. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  106. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  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. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  113. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  114. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  115. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  116. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  117. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  118. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  119. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  120. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  121. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  122. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  123. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  124. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  125. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  126. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  127. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  128. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  129. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  130. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  131. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  132. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  133. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  134. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  135. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  136. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  137. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  138. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  139. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  140. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  141. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  142. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  143. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  144. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  145. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  146. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  147. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  148. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  149. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  150. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786