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Émilie du Châtelet
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Émilie du Châtelet

French physicist

Born 17 December 1706 · died 10 September 1749, aged 42
Also known as Emilie du Chatelet, Marquise de Du Châtelet, Marquise de Châtelet

Who was alive at the same time as Émilie du Châtelet?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  7. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Émilie du Châtelet, 1706 – 1749
  13. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  14. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  17. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  18. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  19. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  20. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  21. James Watt, 1736 – 1819
  22. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  23. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  24. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832

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When Émilie du Châtelet was born, Isaac Newton was 63, Johann Sebastian Bach was 21, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was under a year old and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

When Émilie du Châtelet died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was under a year old, George Washington was 17, Johann Sebastian Bach was 64, Voltaire was 54 and Immanuel Kant was 25.

Born during Émilie du Châtelet’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 7 years after Émilie du Châtelet died, John Locke died about 2 years before Émilie du Châtelet was born, Matsuo Bashō died about 12 years before Émilie du Châtelet was born and Friedrich Schiller was born about 10 years after Émilie du Châtelet died.

Where Émilie du Châtelet’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

195 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Émilie du Châtelet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1728.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  24. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  25. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  26. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  27. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  32. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  33. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  34. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  35. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  36. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  38. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  39. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  40. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  41. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  42. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  43. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  44. George III 1738 – 1820
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  46. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  47. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  48. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  49. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  50. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  51. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  52. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  53. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  55. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  56. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  57. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  58. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  61. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  62. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  63. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  64. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  65. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  66. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  67. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  68. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  69. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  70. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  71. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  72. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  73. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  74. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  75. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  76. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  80. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  81. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  82. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  83. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  84. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  85. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  86. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  87. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  88. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  89. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  90. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  91. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  92. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  93. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  94. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  95. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  96. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  97. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  98. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  99. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  100. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  101. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  102. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  103. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  104. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  105. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  106. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  107. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  108. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  109. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  110. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  111. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  112. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  113. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  114. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  115. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  116. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  117. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  118. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  119. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  120. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  121. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  122. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  123. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  124. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  125. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  126. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  127. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  128. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  129. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  130. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  131. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  132. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  133. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  134. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  135. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  136. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  137. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  138. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  139. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  140. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  141. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  142. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  143. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  144. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  145. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  146. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  147. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  148. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  149. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  150. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770