Who Was Alive

Were Christiaan Huygens and Voltaire alive at the same time?

Yes. Christiaan Huygens and Voltaire were alive at the same time for 0 years, from 1694 to 1695.

Christiaan Huygens was 65 when Voltaire was born.

Voltaire was under a year old when Christiaan Huygens died, aged 66.

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer

Born 14 April 1629 · died 8 July 1695, aged 66

Voltaire

French writer, historian and philosopher

Born 21 November 1694 · died 30 May 1778, aged 83

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. René Descartes
  3. Christiaan Huygens
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach
  6. Voltaire
  7. George Washington
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  10. Napoleon
Christiaan Huygens and Voltaire in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.