Who Was Alive
James Hutton
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James Hutton

British geologist and physician

Born 3 June 1726 (Julian calendar) · died 26 March 1797, aged 70
Also known as The Father of Modern Geology

Who was alive at the same time as James Hutton?

  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. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  10. James Hutton, 1726 – 1797
  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 James Hutton was born, Isaac Newton was 83, Johann Sebastian Bach was 41, Voltaire was 31, Immanuel Kant was 2 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 13.

When James Hutton 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 James Hutton’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

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

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

362 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as James Hutton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1762.

  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  25. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  30. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  34. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  42. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  43. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  44. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  45. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  46. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  47. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  48. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  49. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  50. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  51. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  52. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  53. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  54. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  55. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  56. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  57. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  58. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  59. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  60. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  61. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  62. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  63. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  64. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  65. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  66. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  67. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  68. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  69. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  70. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  71. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  72. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  73. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  74. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  75. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  76. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  77. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  78. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  79. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  80. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  81. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  82. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  83. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  84. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  85. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  86. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  87. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  88. George III 1738 – 1820
  89. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  90. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  91. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  92. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  93. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  94. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  95. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  96. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  97. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  98. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  99. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  100. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  101. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  102. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  103. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  104. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  105. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  106. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  107. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  108. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  109. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  110. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  111. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  112. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  113. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  114. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  115. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  116. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  117. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  118. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  119. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  120. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  121. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  122. William IV 1765 – 1837
  123. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  124. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  125. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  126. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  127. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  128. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  129. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  130. George IV 1762 – 1830
  131. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  132. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  133. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  134. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  135. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  136. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  137. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  138. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  139. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  140. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  141. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  142. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  143. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  144. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  145. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  146. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  147. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  148. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  149. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  150. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760