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Ivan VI of Russia
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Ivan VI of Russia

Emperor of all the Russias

Born 12 August 1740 (Julian calendar) · died 5 July 1764 (Julian calendar), aged 23
Also known as Ivan VI Antonovich

Who was alive at the same time as Ivan VI of Russia?

  1. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  2. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  3. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  6. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Ivan VI of Russia, 1740 – 1764
  17. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  18. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  20. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  22. William Blake, 1757 – 1827
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Ivan VI of Russia was born, George Washington was 8, Johann Sebastian Bach was 55, Voltaire was 45, Immanuel Kant was 16 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 28.

When Ivan VI of Russia died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 14, George Washington was 32, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 8, Voltaire was 69 and Immanuel Kant was 40.

Born during Ivan VI of Russia’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Schiller, Hokusai, James Madison and William Blake.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 13 years before Ivan VI of Russia was born, Napoleon was born about 5 years after Ivan VI of Russia died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 4 years after Ivan VI of Russia died and Jane Austen was born about 11 years after Ivan VI of Russia died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

200 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ivan VI of Russia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1752.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  13. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  14. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  15. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  16. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  17. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  18. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  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. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  28. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  31. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  32. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  33. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  34. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  35. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  36. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  37. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  38. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  39. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  40. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  41. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  42. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  43. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  44. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  45. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  46. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  47. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  48. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  49. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  50. George III 1738 – 1820
  51. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  52. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  53. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  54. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  55. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  56. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  57. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  58. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  59. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  60. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  61. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  62. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  63. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  64. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  65. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  66. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  67. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  68. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  69. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  70. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  71. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  72. George IV 1762 – 1830
  73. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  74. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  75. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  76. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  77. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  78. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  79. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  80. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  81. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  82. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  83. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  84. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  85. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  86. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  87. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  88. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  89. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  90. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  91. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  92. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  93. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  94. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  95. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  96. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  97. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  98. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  99. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  100. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  101. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  102. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  103. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  104. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  105. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  106. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  107. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  108. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  109. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  110. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  111. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  112. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  113. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  114. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  115. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  116. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  117. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  118. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  119. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  120. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  121. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  122. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  123. Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763 – 1814
  124. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  125. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  126. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  127. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  128. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  129. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  130. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  131. Jean Paul 1763 – 1825
  132. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  133. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  134. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  135. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  136. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  137. William Godwin 1756 – 1836
  138. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  139. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  140. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1760 – 1836
  141. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  142. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  143. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  144. Caroline Herschel 1750 – 1848
  145. Joseph de Maistre 1753 – 1821
  146. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  147. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  148. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  149. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  150. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765