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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

German physicist

Born 24 May 1686 · died 16 September 1736, aged 50
Also known as Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit

Who was alive at the same time as Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  7. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  8. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  9. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  11. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686 – 1736
  12. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  13. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  14. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  15. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  16. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  17. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  20. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  21. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  22. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  23. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  24. James Watt, 1736 – 1819

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When Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born, Isaac Newton was 43, Johann Sebastian Bach was 1, John Locke was 53, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 39 and Matsuo Bashō was 41 or 42.

When Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit died, George Washington was 4, Johann Sebastian Bach was 51, Voltaire was 41, Immanuel Kant was 12 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 24.

Born during Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s lifetime: George Washington, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 13 years after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit died, Molière died about 13 years before Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born, Thomas Jefferson was born about 7 years after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit died and Francisco Goya was born about 10 years after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

185 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1711.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  30. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  31. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  32. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  33. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  34. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  42. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  43. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  44. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  45. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  46. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  47. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  48. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  49. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  50. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  51. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  52. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  53. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  54. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  55. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  56. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  57. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  58. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  59. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  60. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  61. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  62. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  63. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  64. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  65. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  66. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  67. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  68. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  69. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  70. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  71. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  72. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  73. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  74. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  75. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  76. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  77. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  78. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  79. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  80. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  81. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  82. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  83. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  84. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  85. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  86. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  87. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  88. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  89. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  90. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  91. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  92. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  93. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  94. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  95. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  96. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  97. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  98. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  99. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  100. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  101. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  102. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  103. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  104. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  105. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  106. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  107. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  108. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  109. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  110. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  111. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  112. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  113. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  114. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  115. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  116. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  117. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  118. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  119. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  120. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  121. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  122. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  123. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  124. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  125. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  126. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  127. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  128. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  129. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  130. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  131. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  132. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  133. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  134. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  135. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  136. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  137. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  138. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  139. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  140. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  141. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  142. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  143. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  144. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  145. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  146. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  147. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  148. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  149. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  150. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713