Who Was Alive

Catherine II of Russia

Eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796

Born 2 May 1729 · died 6 November 1796 (Julian calendar), aged 67

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

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. Catherine II of Russia
  11. George Washington
  12. John Adams
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Friedrich Schiller
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Catherine II of Russia was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 44, Voltaire was 34, Immanuel Kant was 5, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 16 and Adam Smith was 5.

When Catherine II of Russia died, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 64, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

Born during Catherine II of Russia’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 2 years before Catherine II of Russia was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 13 years after Catherine II of Russia died, Charles Darwin was born 13 years after Catherine II of Russia died and Victor Hugo was born 6 years after Catherine II of Russia died.

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All 142 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  34. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  35. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  36. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  37. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  38. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  41. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  42. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  43. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  44. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  45. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  46. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  47. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  48. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  49. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  50. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  51. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  52. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  53. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  54. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  55. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  56. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  57. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  58. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  59. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  60. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  61. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  62. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  63. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  64. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  65. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  66. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  67. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  68. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  69. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  70. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  71. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  72. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  73. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  74. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  75. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  76. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  77. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  78. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  79. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  80. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  81. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  82. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  83. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  84. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  85. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  86. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  87. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  88. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  89. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  90. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  91. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  92. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  93. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  94. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  95. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  96. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  97. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  98. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  99. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  100. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  101. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  102. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  103. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  104. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  105. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  106. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  107. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  108. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  109. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  110. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  111. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  112. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  113. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  114. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  115. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  116. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  117. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  118. William IV 1765 – 1837
  119. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  120. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  121. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  122. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  123. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  124. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  125. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  126. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  127. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  128. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  129. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  130. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  131. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  132. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  133. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  134. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  135. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  136. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  137. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  138. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  139. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  140. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  141. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  142. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817