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Catherine I of Russia
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Catherine I of Russia

Emperor of all the Russias

Born 5 April 1684 (Julian calendar) · died 6 May 1727 (Julian calendar), aged 43
Also known as Ekaterina I of Russia, Catherine I., Catherine I

Who was alive at the same time as Catherine I of Russia?

  1. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  2. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  3. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  4. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  5. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  7. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  8. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  9. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  10. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  11. Catherine I of Russia, 1684 – 1727
  12. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  14. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  15. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  16. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  17. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  18. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  19. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784
  20. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  22. Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784
  23. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  24. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804

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When Catherine I of Russia was born, Isaac Newton was 41, John Locke was 51, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 37, Matsuo Bashō was 39 or 40 and Louis XIV was 45.

When Catherine I of Russia died, Johann Sebastian Bach was 42, Voltaire was 32, Immanuel Kant was 3, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 and Adam Smith was 3.

Born during Catherine I of Russia’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 5 years after Catherine I of Russia died, Molière died about 11 years before Catherine I of Russia was born, Rembrandt died about 15 years before Catherine I of Russia was born and John Adams was born about 8 years after Catherine I of Russia died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

164 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Catherine I of Russia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1706.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  13. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  14. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  18. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  19. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  20. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  23. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  24. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  25. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  30. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  31. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  36. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  37. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  38. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  45. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  46. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  47. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  48. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  49. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  50. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  51. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  52. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  53. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  54. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  55. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  56. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  57. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  58. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  59. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  60. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  61. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  62. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  63. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  64. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  65. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  66. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  67. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  68. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  69. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  70. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  71. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  72. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  73. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  74. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  75. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  76. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  77. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  78. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  79. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  80. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  81. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  82. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  83. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  84. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  85. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  86. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  87. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  88. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  89. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  90. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  91. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  92. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  93. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  94. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  95. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  96. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  97. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  98. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  99. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  100. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  101. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  102. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  103. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  104. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  105. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  106. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  107. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  108. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  109. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  110. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  111. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  112. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  113. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  114. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  115. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  116. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  117. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  118. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  119. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  120. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  121. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  122. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  123. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  124. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  125. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  126. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  127. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  128. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  129. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  130. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  131. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  132. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  133. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  134. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  135. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  136. Samuel Adams 1722 – 1803
  137. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724 – 1803
  138. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  139. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  140. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  141. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  142. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  143. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  144. Peter III of Portugal 1717 – 1786
  145. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  146. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  147. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  148. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  149. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  150. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737