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Jacob Bernoulli
Niklaus Bernoulli (1662-1716), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician

Born 1654–1655 · died 16 August 1705, aged 50
Also known as James Bernoulli

Who was alive at the same time as Jacob Bernoulli?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  4. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  5. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  6. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  12. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  13. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  15. Jacob Bernoulli, c. 1655 – 1705
  16. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  17. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  18. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  20. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  22. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Jacob Bernoulli was born, Isaac Newton was 11 or 12, Molière was 32, John Locke was 22, Rembrandt was 48 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 8.

When Jacob Bernoulli died, Isaac Newton was 62, Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, Voltaire was 10, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 59 and Louis XIV was 66.

Born during Jacob Bernoulli’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, Montesquieu, George Frideric Handel and Daniel Defoe.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 12 years before Jacob Bernoulli was born, René Descartes died about 4 years before Jacob Bernoulli was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 7 years after Jacob Bernoulli died and Benjamin Franklin was born about a year after Jacob Bernoulli died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

154 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jacob Bernoulli. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1680.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  16. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  35. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  36. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  37. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  38. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  39. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  40. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  45. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  48. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  49. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  50. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  51. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  52. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  53. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  54. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  55. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  56. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  57. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  58. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  59. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  60. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  61. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  62. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  63. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  64. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  65. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  66. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  67. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  68. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  69. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  70. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  71. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  72. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  73. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  74. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  75. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  76. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  77. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  78. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  79. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  80. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  81. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  82. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  83. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  84. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  85. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  86. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  87. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  88. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  89. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  90. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  91. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  92. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  93. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  94. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  95. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  96. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  97. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  98. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  99. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  100. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  101. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  102. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  103. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  104. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  105. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  106. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  107. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  108. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  109. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  110. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  111. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  112. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  113. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  114. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  115. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  116. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  117. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  118. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  119. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  120. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  121. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  122. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  123. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  124. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  125. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  126. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  127. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  128. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  129. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  130. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  131. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  132. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  133. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  134. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  135. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  136. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  137. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  138. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  139. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  140. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  141. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  142. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  143. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  144. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  145. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  146. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  147. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  148. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  149. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  150. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754