Who Was Alive

Were Isaac Newton and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon alive at the same time?

Yes. Isaac Newton and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon were alive at the same time for 19 years, from 1707 to 1727.

Isaac Newton was 64 when Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was 19 when Isaac Newton died, aged 84.

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist

Born 25 December 1642 (Julian calendar) · died 20 March 1727 (Julian calendar), aged 84

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French natural historian

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

  1. René Descartes
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Napoleon
Isaac Newton and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.