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George I of Great Britain
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George I of Great Britain

Monarch of Great Britain

Born 7 June 1660 · died 22 June 1727, aged 67
Also known as Georg Ludwig, George Louis, George Louis of Hanover

Who was alive at the same time as George I of Great Britain?

  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. George I of Great Britain, 1660 – 1727
  13. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  14. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  16. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  17. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  18. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  19. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  20. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  21. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  22. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  23. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  24. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804

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When George I of Great Britain was born, Isaac Newton was 17, Molière was 38, John Locke was 27, Rembrandt was 53 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 13.

When George I of Great Britain died, Johann Sebastian Bach was 42, Voltaire was 32, Immanuel Kant was 3, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 and Adam Smith was 3 or 4.

Born during George I of Great Britain’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 5 years after George I of Great Britain died, René Descartes died about 10 years before George I of Great Britain was born, John Adams was born about 8 years after George I of Great Britain died and James Cook was born about a year after George I of Great Britain died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

194 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as George I of Great Britain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1694.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  27. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  28. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  29. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  32. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  33. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  34. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  46. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  47. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  51. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  58. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  61. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  62. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  63. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  64. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  65. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  66. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  67. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  68. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  69. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  70. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  71. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  72. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  73. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  74. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  75. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  76. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  77. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  78. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  79. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  80. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  81. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  82. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  83. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  84. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  85. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  86. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  87. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  88. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  89. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  90. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  91. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  92. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  93. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  94. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  95. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  96. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  97. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  98. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  99. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  100. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  101. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  102. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  103. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  104. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  105. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  106. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  107. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  108. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  109. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  110. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  111. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  112. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  113. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  114. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  115. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  116. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  117. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  118. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  119. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  120. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  121. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  122. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  123. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  124. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  125. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  126. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  127. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  128. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  129. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  130. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  131. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  132. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  133. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  134. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  135. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  136. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  137. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  138. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  139. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  140. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  141. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  142. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  143. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  144. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  145. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  146. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  147. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  148. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  149. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  150. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703