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Johann Bernoulli
Johann Rudolf Huber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Johann Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician

Born 27 July 1667 (Julian calendar) · died 1 January 1748, aged 80
Also known as Jean Bernoulli, John Bernoulli

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Bernoulli?

  1. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  2. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  3. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  4. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  5. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  6. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  7. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  9. Johann Bernoulli, 1667 – 1748
  10. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  11. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  12. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  13. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  14. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  15. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  16. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  19. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  20. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  21. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  22. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  23. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  24. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828

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When Johann Bernoulli was born, Isaac Newton was 24, Molière was 45, John Locke was 34, Rembrandt was 61 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 21.

When Johann Bernoulli died, George Washington was 15, Johann Sebastian Bach was 62, Voltaire was 53, Immanuel Kant was 23 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 35.

Born during Johann Bernoulli’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about a year after Johann Bernoulli died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 8 years after Johann Bernoulli died, Blaise Pascal died about 5 years before Johann Bernoulli was born and Friedrich Schiller was born about 11 years after Johann Bernoulli died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

239 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Bernoulli. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1708.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  13. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  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. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  26. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  35. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  36. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  37. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  38. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  39. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  40. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  41. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  42. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  43. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  44. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  45. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  46. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  48. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  49. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  50. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  51. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  52. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  53. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  54. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  55. George III 1738 – 1820
  56. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  57. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  58. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  59. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  60. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  61. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  62. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  63. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  64. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  65. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  66. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  67. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  68. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  69. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  70. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  71. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  72. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  73. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  74. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  75. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  76. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  77. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  78. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  79. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  80. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  81. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  82. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  83. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  84. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  85. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  86. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  87. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  88. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  89. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  90. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  91. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  92. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  93. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  94. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  95. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  96. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  97. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  98. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  99. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  100. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  101. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  102. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  103. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  104. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  105. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  106. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  107. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  108. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  109. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  110. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  111. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  112. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  113. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  114. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  115. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  116. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  117. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  118. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  119. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  120. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  121. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  122. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  123. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  124. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  125. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  126. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  127. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  128. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  129. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  130. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  131. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  132. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  133. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  134. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  135. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  136. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  137. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  138. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  139. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  140. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  141. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  142. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  143. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  144. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  145. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  146. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  147. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  148. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  149. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  150. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788