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Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole

British writer and politician

Born 24 September 1717 · died 2 March 1797, aged 79
Also known as Onuphrio Muralto, Horatio Walpole, Sir Horace Walpole

Who was alive at the same time as Horace Walpole?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Horace Walpole, 1717 – 1797
  9. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  10. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Horace Walpole was born, Isaac Newton was 74, Johann Sebastian Bach was 32, Voltaire was 22, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 5 and Benjamin Franklin was 11.

When Horace Walpole died, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

Born during Horace Walpole’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 12 years after Horace Walpole died, Charles Darwin was born about 12 years after Horace Walpole died, Victor Hugo was born about 5 years after Horace Walpole died and Charles Dickens was born about 15 years after Horace Walpole died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

373 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Horace Walpole. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1757.

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  30. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  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
  36. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  37. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  38. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  39. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  40. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  41. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  42. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  43. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  44. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  45. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  46. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  47. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  48. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  49. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  50. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  51. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  52. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  53. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  54. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  55. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  56. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  57. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  58. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  59. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  60. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  61. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  62. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  63. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  64. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  65. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  66. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  67. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  68. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  69. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  70. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  71. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  72. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  73. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  74. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  75. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  76. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  77. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  78. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  79. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  80. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  81. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  82. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  83. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  84. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  85. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  86. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  87. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  88. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  89. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  90. George III 1738 – 1820
  91. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  92. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  93. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  94. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  95. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  96. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  97. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  98. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  99. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  100. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  101. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  102. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  103. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  104. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  105. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  106. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  107. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  108. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  109. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  110. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  111. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  112. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  113. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  114. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  115. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  116. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  117. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  118. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  119. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  120. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  121. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  122. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  123. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  124. William IV 1765 – 1837
  125. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  126. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  127. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  128. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  129. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  130. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  131. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  132. George IV 1762 – 1830
  133. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  134. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  135. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  136. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  137. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  138. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  139. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  140. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  141. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  142. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  143. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  144. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  145. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  146. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  147. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  148. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  149. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  150. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830