Who Was Alive

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French natural historian

Born 7 September 1707 · died 15 April 1788, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon?

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Benjamin Franklin
  6. Leonhard Euler
  7. Carl Linnaeus
  8. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  10. Adam Smith
  11. Immanuel Kant
  12. James Cook
  13. George Washington
  14. John Adams
  15. Thomas Jefferson
  16. Francisco Goya
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven
  20. Napoleon
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  22. Jane Austen
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  24. Lord Byron
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When Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 22, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Carl Linnaeus was under a year old.

When Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon died, Napoleon was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 38, George Washington was 56, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 32 and Immanuel Kant was 63.

Born during Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born 14 years after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon died, Alexander Pushkin was born 11 years after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon died, John Locke died 3 years before Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born and Matsuo Bashō died 13 years before Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born.

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  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  32. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  33. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  34. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  35. William Blake 1757 – 1827
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  56. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
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  66. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  67. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
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  69. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
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