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Ferdinand VI
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Ferdinand VI

Monarch of Spain

Born 23 September 1713 · died 10 August 1759, aged 45
Also known as Ferdinand VI of Spain, Fernando de Borbón, Ferdinand the Learned

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand VI?

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  9. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  10. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  11. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Ferdinand VI, 1713 – 1759
  14. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  15. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  16. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  17. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  18. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  19. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  20. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  21. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  22. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  24. William Blake, 1757 – 1827

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When Ferdinand VI was born, Isaac Newton was 70, Johann Sebastian Bach was 28, Voltaire was 18, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 1 and Benjamin Franklin was 7.

When Ferdinand VI died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 35.

Born during Ferdinand VI’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 10 years after Ferdinand VI died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 9 years after Ferdinand VI died, John Locke died about 9 years before Ferdinand VI was born and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born about 11 years after Ferdinand VI died.

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Where Ferdinand VI’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

215 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ferdinand VI. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1736.

  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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  18. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  19. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  20. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  23. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  26. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  29. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  30. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  31. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  32. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  33. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  34. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  35. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  36. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  37. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  38. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  39. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  40. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  41. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  42. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  43. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  44. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  45. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  46. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  47. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  48. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  49. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  50. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  51. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  52. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  53. George III 1738 – 1820
  54. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  55. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  56. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  57. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  58. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  59. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  60. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  61. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  62. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  63. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  64. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  65. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  66. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  67. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  68. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  69. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  70. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  71. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  72. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  73. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  74. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  75. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  76. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  77. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  78. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  79. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  80. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  81. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  82. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  83. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  84. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  85. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  86. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  87. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  88. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  89. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  90. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  91. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  92. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  93. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  94. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  95. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  96. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  97. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  98. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  99. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  100. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  101. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  102. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  103. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  104. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  105. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  106. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  107. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  108. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  109. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  110. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  111. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  112. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  113. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  114. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  115. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  116. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  117. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  118. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  119. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  120. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  121. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  122. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  123. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  124. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  125. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  126. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  127. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  128. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  129. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  130. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  131. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  132. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  133. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  134. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  135. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  136. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  137. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  138. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  139. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  140. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  141. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  142. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  143. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  144. William Godwin 1756 – 1836
  145. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  146. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  147. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  148. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  149. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  150. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792