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Frederick I of Prussia
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Frederick I of Prussia

King of Prussia

Born 11 July 1657 · died 25 February 1713, aged 55
Also known as Frederick III, Friedrich I., Friedrich I von Preußen

Who was alive at the same time as Frederick I of Prussia?

  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. Frederick I of Prussia, 1657 – 1713
  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 Frederick I of Prussia was born, Isaac Newton was 14, Molière was 35, John Locke was 24, Rembrandt was 50 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 11.

When Frederick I of Prussia died, Isaac Newton was 70, Johann Sebastian Bach was 27, Voltaire was 18, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was under a year old and Benjamin Franklin was 7.

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

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes died about 7 years before Frederick I of Prussia was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 11 years after Frederick I of Prussia died, Adam Smith was born about 10 years after Frederick I of Prussia died and Denis Diderot was born months after Frederick I of Prussia died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

168 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frederick I of Prussia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1685.

  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. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  26. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  27. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  28. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  29. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  37. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  47. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  52. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  53. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  54. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  57. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  58. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  59. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  60. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  61. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  62. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  63. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  64. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  65. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  66. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  67. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  68. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  69. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  70. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  71. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  72. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  73. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  74. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  75. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  76. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  77. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  78. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  79. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  80. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  81. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  82. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  83. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  84. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  85. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  86. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  87. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  88. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  89. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  90. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  91. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  92. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  93. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  94. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  95. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  96. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  97. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  98. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  99. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  100. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  101. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  102. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  103. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  104. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  105. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  106. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  107. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  108. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  109. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  110. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  111. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  112. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  113. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  114. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  115. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  116. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  117. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  118. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  119. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  120. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  121. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  122. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  123. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  124. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  125. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  126. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  127. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  128. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  129. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  130. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  131. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  132. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  133. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  134. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  135. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  136. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  137. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  138. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  139. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  140. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  141. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  142. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  143. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  144. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  145. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  146. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  147. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  148. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  149. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  150. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660