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Domenico Scarlatti
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Domenico Scarlatti

Italian composer

Born 26 October 1685 · died 23 July 1757, aged 71
Also known as Scarlatti, D. Scarlatti

Who was alive at the same time as Domenico Scarlatti?

  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. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 – 1757
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  13. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  15. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  16. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  17. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  18. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  19. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  20. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  21. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  22. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  23. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791

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When Domenico Scarlatti was born, Isaac Newton was 42, Johann Sebastian Bach was under a year old, John Locke was 53, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 39 and Matsuo Bashō was 40 or 41.

When Domenico Scarlatti died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 7, George Washington was 25, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 1, Voltaire was 62 and Immanuel Kant was 33.

Born during Domenico Scarlatti’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 12 years after Domenico Scarlatti died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 11 years after Domenico Scarlatti died, Molière died about 12 years before Domenico Scarlatti was born and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born about 13 years after Domenico Scarlatti died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

246 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Domenico Scarlatti. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1721.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  26. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  27. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  28. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  29. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  30. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  31. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  32. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  33. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  34. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  35. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  36. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  37. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  38. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  39. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  40. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  41. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  42. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  43. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  44. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  45. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  46. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  48. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  49. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  50. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  51. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  52. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  53. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  54. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  55. George III 1738 – 1820
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  57. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  59. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  60. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  61. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  62. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  63. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  64. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  65. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  66. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  67. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  68. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  69. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  70. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  71. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  72. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  73. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  74. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  75. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  76. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  77. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  78. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  79. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  80. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  81. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  82. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  83. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  84. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  85. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  86. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  87. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  88. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  89. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  90. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  91. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  92. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  93. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  94. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  95. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  96. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  97. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  98. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  99. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  100. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  101. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  102. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  103. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  104. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  105. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  106. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  107. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  108. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  109. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  110. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  111. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  112. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  113. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  114. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  115. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  116. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  117. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  118. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  119. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  120. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  121. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  122. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  123. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  124. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  125. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  126. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  127. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  128. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  129. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  130. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  131. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  132. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  133. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  134. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  135. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  136. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  137. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  138. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  139. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  140. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  141. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  142. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  143. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  144. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  145. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  146. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  147. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  148. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  149. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  150. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767