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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Georg Philipp Telemann

German composer

Born 14 March 1681 (Julian calendar) · died 25 June 1767, aged 86
Also known as Telemann, G. P. Telemann

Who was alive at the same time as Georg Philipp Telemann?

  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. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Georg Philipp Telemann, 1681 – 1767
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  10. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  11. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  12. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Georg Philipp Telemann was born, Isaac Newton was 38, John Locke was 48, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 34, Matsuo Bashō was 36 or 37 and Louis XIV was 42.

When Georg Philipp Telemann died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 17, George Washington was 35, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 11, Voltaire was 72 and Immanuel Kant was 43.

Born during Georg Philipp Telemann’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 2 years after Georg Philipp Telemann died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about a year after Georg Philipp Telemann died, Molière died about 8 years before Georg Philipp Telemann was born and Rembrandt died about 12 years before Georg Philipp Telemann was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

293 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Georg Philipp Telemann. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1724.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  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. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  38. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  39. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  40. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  41. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  42. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  43. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  44. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  45. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  46. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  47. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  48. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  49. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  50. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  51. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  52. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  53. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  54. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  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. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  65. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  66. George III 1738 – 1820
  67. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  68. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  69. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  70. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  71. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  72. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  73. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  74. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  75. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  76. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  77. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  78. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  79. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  80. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  81. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  82. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  83. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  84. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  85. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  86. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  87. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  88. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  89. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  90. William IV 1765 – 1837
  91. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  92. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  93. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  94. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  95. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  96. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  97. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  98. George IV 1762 – 1830
  99. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  100. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  101. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  102. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  103. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  104. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  105. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  106. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  107. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  108. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  109. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  110. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  111. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  112. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  113. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  114. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  115. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  116. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  117. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  118. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  119. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  120. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  121. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  122. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  123. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  124. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  125. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  126. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  127. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  128. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  129. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  130. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  131. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  132. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  133. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  134. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  135. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  136. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  137. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  138. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  139. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  140. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  141. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  142. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  143. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  144. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  145. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  146. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  147. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  148. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  149. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  150. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721