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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German composer

Born 8 March 1714 · died 14 December 1788, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  6. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  7. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  9. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714 – 1788
  10. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  11. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  12. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  13. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  14. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  15. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  16. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born, Isaac Newton was 71, Johann Sebastian Bach was 28, Voltaire was 19, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 1 and Benjamin Franklin was 8.

When Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 14 years after Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 11 years after Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died, John Locke died about 10 years before Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born and Michael Faraday was born about 3 years after Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

340 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1751.

  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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  32. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  33. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  34. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  35. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  36. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  37. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  38. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  39. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  40. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  41. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  42. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  43. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  44. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  45. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  46. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  47. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  48. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  49. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  50. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  51. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  52. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  53. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  54. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  55. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  56. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  57. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  58. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  59. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  60. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  61. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  62. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  63. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  64. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  65. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  66. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  67. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  68. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  69. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  70. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  71. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  72. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  73. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  74. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  75. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  76. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  77. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  78. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  79. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  80. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  81. George III 1738 – 1820
  82. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  83. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  84. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  85. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  86. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  87. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  88. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  89. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  90. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  91. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  92. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  93. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  94. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  95. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  96. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  97. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  98. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  99. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  100. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  101. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  102. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  103. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  104. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  105. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  106. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  107. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  108. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  109. William IV 1765 – 1837
  110. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  111. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  112. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  113. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  114. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  115. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  116. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  117. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  118. George IV 1762 – 1830
  119. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  120. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  121. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  122. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  123. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  124. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  125. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  126. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  127. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  128. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  129. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  130. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  131. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  132. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  133. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  134. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  135. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  136. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  137. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  138. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  139. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  140. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  141. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  142. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  143. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  144. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  145. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  146. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  147. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  148. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  149. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  150. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832