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François Fénelon
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François Fénelon

French archbishop and theologian

Born 6 August 1651 · died 7 January 1715, aged 63
Also known as Fénelon, Phenelon, Franz von Fenelon

Who was alive at the same time as François Fénelon?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  4. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  5. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  6. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  7. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  8. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. François Fénelon, 1651 – 1715
  13. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  14. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  16. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  18. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  19. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  20. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  21. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  22. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  23. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778

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When François Fénelon was born, Isaac Newton was 8, Molière was 29, John Locke was 18, Rembrandt was 45 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 5.

When François Fénelon died, Isaac Newton was 72, Johann Sebastian Bach was 29, Voltaire was 20, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 2 and Benjamin Franklin was 8.

Born during François Fénelon’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 9 years before François Fénelon was born, René Descartes died about a year before François Fénelon was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 9 years after François Fénelon died and Adam Smith was born about 8 years after François Fénelon died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

182 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Fénelon. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1683.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  25. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  31. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  32. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  33. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  41. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  42. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  43. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  48. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  49. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  51. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  52. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  55. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  59. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  60. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  61. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  62. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  63. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  64. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  65. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  66. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  67. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  68. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  69. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  70. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  71. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  72. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  73. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  74. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  75. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  76. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  77. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  78. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  79. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  80. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  81. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  82. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  83. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  84. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  85. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  86. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  87. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  88. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  89. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  90. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  91. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  92. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  93. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  94. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  95. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  96. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  97. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  98. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  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. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  107. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  108. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  109. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  110. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  111. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  112. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  113. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  114. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  115. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  116. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  117. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  118. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  119. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  120. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  121. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  122. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  123. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  124. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  125. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  126. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  127. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  128. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  129. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  130. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  131. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  132. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  133. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  134. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  135. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  136. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  137. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  138. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  139. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  140. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  141. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  142. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  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. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  149. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  150. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713