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François Quesnay
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François Quesnay

French economist

Born 4 June 1694 · died 16 December 1774, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as François Quesnay?

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. François Quesnay, 1694 – 1774
  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. 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. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When François Quesnay was born, Isaac Newton was 51, Johann Sebastian Bach was 9, John Locke was 61, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 47 and Matsuo Bashō was 49 or 50.

When François Quesnay died, Napoleon was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 25, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 80.

Born during François Quesnay’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born about 14 years after François Quesnay died, Jane Austen was born about a year after François Quesnay died, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 3 years after François Quesnay died and Simón Bolívar was born about 9 years after François Quesnay died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

313 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Quesnay. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1734.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  36. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  37. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  38. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  39. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  40. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  41. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  42. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  43. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  44. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  45. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  46. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  47. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  48. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  49. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  50. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  51. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  52. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  53. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  55. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  56. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  57. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  58. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  60. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  61. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  62. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  63. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  64. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  65. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  66. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  67. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  68. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  69. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  70. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  71. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  72. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  73. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  74. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  75. George III 1738 – 1820
  76. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  77. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  78. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  79. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  80. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  81. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  82. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  83. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  84. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  85. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  86. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  87. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  88. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  89. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  90. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  91. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  92. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  93. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  94. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  95. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  96. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  97. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  98. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  99. William IV 1765 – 1837
  100. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  101. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  102. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  103. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  104. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  105. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  106. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  107. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  108. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  109. George IV 1762 – 1830
  110. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  111. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  112. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  113. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  114. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  115. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  116. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  117. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  118. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  119. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  120. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  121. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  122. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  123. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  124. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  125. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  126. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  127. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  128. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  129. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  130. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  131. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  132. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  133. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  134. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  135. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  136. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  137. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  138. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  139. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  140. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  141. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  142. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  143. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  144. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  145. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  146. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  147. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  148. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  149. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  150. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806