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Cesare Beccaria
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Cesare Beccaria

Milanese jurist and philosopher

Born 15 March 1738 · died 20 November 1794, aged 56
Also known as Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria

Who was alive at the same time as Cesare Beccaria?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Cesare Beccaria, 1738 – 1794
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Cesare Beccaria was born, George Washington was 6, Johann Sebastian Bach was 52, Voltaire was 43, Immanuel Kant was 13 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 25.

When Cesare Beccaria died, Napoleon was 25, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 45, George Washington was 62, Immanuel Kant was 70 and Thomas Jefferson was 51.

Born during Cesare Beccaria’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 11 years before Cesare Beccaria was born, Abraham Lincoln was born about 15 years after Cesare Beccaria died, Charles Darwin was born about 15 years after Cesare Beccaria died and Victor Hugo was born about 8 years after Cesare Beccaria died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

338 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cesare Beccaria. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1766.

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  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. 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. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  36. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  37. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  38. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  39. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  40. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  41. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  42. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  43. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  44. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  45. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  46. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  47. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  48. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  49. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  50. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  51. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  52. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  53. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  54. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  55. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  56. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  57. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  58. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  59. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  60. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  61. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  62. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  63. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  64. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  65. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  66. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  67. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  68. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  69. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  70. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  71. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  72. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  73. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  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. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  80. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  81. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  82. George III 1738 – 1820
  83. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  84. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  85. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  86. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  87. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  88. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  89. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  90. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  91. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  92. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  93. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  94. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  95. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  96. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  97. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  98. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  99. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  100. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  101. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  102. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  103. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  104. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  105. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  106. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  107. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  108. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  109. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  110. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  111. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  112. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  113. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  114. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  115. William IV 1765 – 1837
  116. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  117. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  118. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  119. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  120. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  121. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  122. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  123. George IV 1762 – 1830
  124. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  125. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  126. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  127. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  128. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  129. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  130. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  131. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  132. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  133. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  134. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  135. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  136. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  137. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  138. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  139. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  140. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  141. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  142. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  143. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  144. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  145. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  146. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  147. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  148. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  149. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  150. John Herschel 1792 – 1871