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François Boucher
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François Boucher

French painter

Born 29 September 1703 · died 30 May 1770, aged 66
Also known as Francois Boucher, François Bouché, François Bouchet

Who was alive at the same time as François Boucher?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  8. François Boucher, 1703 – 1770
  9. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  10. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  11. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  22. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  23. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  24. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821

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When François Boucher was born, Isaac Newton was 60, Johann Sebastian Bach was 18, Voltaire was 8, John Locke was 71 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 57.

When François Boucher died, Napoleon was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 20, George Washington was 38, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 14 and Voltaire was 75.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Jane Austen was born about 5 years after François Boucher died, Matsuo Bashō died about 9 years before François Boucher was born, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 7 years after François Boucher died and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born months after François Boucher died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

274 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Boucher. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1737.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  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. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  26. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  27. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  28. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  33. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  37. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  38. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  39. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  40. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  41. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  42. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  43. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  44. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  45. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  46. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  47. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  48. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  49. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  50. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  51. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  52. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  53. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  54. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  55. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  56. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  57. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  58. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  59. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  60. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  61. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  62. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  63. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  64. George III 1738 – 1820
  65. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  66. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  67. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  68. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  69. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  70. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  71. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  72. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  73. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  74. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  75. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  76. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  77. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  78. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  79. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  80. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  81. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  82. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  83. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  84. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  85. William IV 1765 – 1837
  86. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  87. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  88. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  89. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  90. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  91. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  92. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  93. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  94. George IV 1762 – 1830
  95. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  96. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  97. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  98. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  99. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  100. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  101. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  102. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  103. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  104. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  105. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  106. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  107. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  108. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  109. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  110. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  111. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  112. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  113. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  114. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  115. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  116. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  117. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  118. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  119. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  120. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  121. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  122. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  123. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  124. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  125. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  126. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  127. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  128. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  129. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  130. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  131. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  132. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  133. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  134. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  135. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  136. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  137. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  138. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  139. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  140. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  141. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  142. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  143. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  144. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  145. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  146. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  147. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  148. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  149. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  150. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786