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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Attributed to Joseph Aved / Formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer and music theorist

Born 25 September 1683 · died 12 September 1764, aged 80
Also known as Jean Philippe Rameau

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Philippe Rameau?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683 – 1764
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  10. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  11. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  12. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  14. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  15. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  16. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  17. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  18. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  19. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  20. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  21. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Jean-Philippe Rameau was born, Isaac Newton was 40, John Locke was 51, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 37, Matsuo Bashō was 38 or 39 and Louis XIV was 45.

When Jean-Philippe Rameau died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 15, George Washington was 32, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 8, Voltaire was 69 and Immanuel Kant was 40.

Born during Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 5 years after Jean-Philippe Rameau died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 4 years after Jean-Philippe Rameau died, Molière died about 10 years before Jean-Philippe Rameau was born and Rembrandt died about 14 years before Jean-Philippe Rameau was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

276 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean-Philippe Rameau. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1724.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  26. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  27. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  28. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  29. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  30. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  31. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  32. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  33. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  34. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  35. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  36. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  37. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  39. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  42. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  43. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  44. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  45. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  46. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  47. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  48. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  49. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  50. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  51. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  52. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  53. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  54. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  55. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  56. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  57. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  58. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  59. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  60. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  61. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  62. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  63. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  64. George III 1738 – 1820
  65. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  66. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  67. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  68. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  69. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  70. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  71. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  72. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  73. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  74. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  75. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  77. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  78. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  79. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  80. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  81. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  82. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  83. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  84. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  85. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  86. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  87. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  88. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  89. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  90. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  91. George IV 1762 – 1830
  92. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  93. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  94. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  95. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  96. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  97. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  98. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  99. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  100. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  101. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  102. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  103. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  104. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  105. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  106. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  107. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  108. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  109. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  110. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  111. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  112. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  113. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  114. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  115. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  116. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  117. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  118. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  119. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  120. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  121. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  122. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  123. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  124. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  125. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  126. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  127. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  128. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  129. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  130. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  131. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  132. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  133. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  134. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  135. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  136. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  137. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  138. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  139. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  140. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  141. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  142. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  143. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  144. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  145. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  146. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  147. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  148. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  149. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  150. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774