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George II of Great Britain
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George II of Great Britain

Monarch of Great Britain

Born 10 November 1683 · died 25 October 1760, aged 76
Also known as George Augustus, George II, George Augustus Hanover

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

  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. George II of Great Britain, 1683 – 1760
  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. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  24. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805

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When George II of Great Britain was born, Isaac Newton was 40, John Locke was 51, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 37, Matsuo Bashō was 38 or 39 and Louis XIV was 45.

When George II of Great Britain died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 11, George Washington was 28, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 4, Voltaire was 65 and Immanuel Kant was 36.

Born during George II of Great Britain’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 9 years after George II of Great Britain died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 8 years after George II of Great Britain died, Molière died about 10 years before George II of Great Britain was born and Rembrandt died about 14 years before George II of Great Britain was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

266 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as George II of Great Britain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1722.

  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. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  26. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  27. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  28. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  29. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  30. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  31. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  32. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  33. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  34. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  35. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  36. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  37. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  38. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  39. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  40. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  41. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  42. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  43. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  44. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  45. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  46. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  47. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  48. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  49. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  50. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  51. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  52. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  53. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  54. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  55. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  56. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  57. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  58. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  59. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  60. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  61. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  62. George III 1738 – 1820
  63. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  64. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  65. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  66. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  67. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  68. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  69. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  70. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  71. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  72. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  73. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  74. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  75. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  76. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  77. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  78. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  79. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  80. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  81. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  82. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  83. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  84. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  85. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  86. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  87. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  88. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  89. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  90. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  91. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  92. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  93. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  94. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  95. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  96. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  97. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  98. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  99. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  100. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  101. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  102. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  103. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  104. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  105. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  106. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  107. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  108. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  109. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  110. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  111. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  112. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  113. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  114. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  115. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  116. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  117. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  118. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  119. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  120. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  121. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  122. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  123. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  124. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  125. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  126. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  127. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  128. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  129. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  130. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  131. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  132. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  133. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  134. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  135. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  136. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  137. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  138. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  139. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  140. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  141. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  142. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  143. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  144. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  145. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  146. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  147. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  148. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  149. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  150. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705