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Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding

British novelist and playwright

Born 22 April 1707 · died 8 October 1754, aged 47
Also known as Henri Fielding, Henri Filding, Petrus Gualterus

Who was alive at the same time as Henry Fielding?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  7. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  13. Henry Fielding, 1707 – 1754
  14. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  17. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  18. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  19. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  20. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  21. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  22. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  24. James Madison, 1751 – 1836

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When Henry Fielding was born, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 22, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

When Henry Fielding died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 5, George Washington was 22, Voltaire was 59, Immanuel Kant was 30 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 42.

Born during Henry Fielding’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Carl Linnaeus and John Adams.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 15 years after Henry Fielding died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 2 years after Henry Fielding died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 14 years after Henry Fielding died and John Locke died about 3 years before Henry Fielding was born.

Where Henry Fielding’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

203 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Henry Fielding. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1731.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  27. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  28. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  29. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  30. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  31. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  32. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  33. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  34. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  35. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  36. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  37. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  38. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  39. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  40. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  41. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  42. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  43. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  44. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  45. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  46. George III 1738 – 1820
  47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  48. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  49. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  50. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  51. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  52. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  53. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  54. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  55. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  56. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  57. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  58. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  59. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  60. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  61. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  62. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  63. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  64. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  65. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  66. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  67. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  68. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  69. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  70. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  71. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  72. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  73. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  74. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  75. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  76. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  77. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  78. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  79. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  80. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  81. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  82. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  83. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  84. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  85. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  86. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  87. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  88. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  89. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  90. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  91. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  92. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  93. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  94. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  95. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  96. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  97. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  98. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  99. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  100. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  101. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  102. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  103. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  104. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  105. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  106. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  107. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  108. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  109. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  110. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  111. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  112. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  113. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  114. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  115. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  116. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  117. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  118. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  119. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  120. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  121. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  122. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  123. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  124. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  125. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  126. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  127. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  128. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  129. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  130. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  131. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  132. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  133. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  134. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  135. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  136. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  137. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  138. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  139. Caroline Herschel 1750 – 1848
  140. Joseph de Maistre 1753 – 1821
  141. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  142. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  143. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  144. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  145. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  146. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  147. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  148. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  149. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  150. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774