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Johann Christian Bach
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Johann Christian Bach

German composer

Born 5 September 1735 · died 1 January 1782, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Christian Bach?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. Johann Christian Bach, 1735 – 1782
  12. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Johann Christian Bach was born, George Washington was 3, Johann Sebastian Bach was 50, Voltaire was 40, Immanuel Kant was 11 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 23.

When Johann Christian Bach died, Napoleon was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 32, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 57.

Born during Johann Christian Bach’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 8 years before Johann Christian Bach was born, Lord Byron was born about 6 years after Johann Christian Bach died, Peter the Great died about 10 years before Johann Christian Bach was born and Michael Faraday was born about 9 years after Johann Christian Bach died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

289 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Christian Bach. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1759.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  26. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  38. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  39. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  40. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  41. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  42. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  43. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  44. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  45. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  46. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  47. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  48. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  49. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  50. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  51. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  52. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  53. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  54. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  55. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  56. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  57. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  58. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  59. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  60. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  61. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  62. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  63. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  64. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  65. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  66. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  67. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  68. George III 1738 – 1820
  69. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  70. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  71. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  72. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  73. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  74. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  75. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  76. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  77. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  78. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  79. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  80. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  81. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  82. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  83. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  84. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  85. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  86. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  87. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  88. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  89. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  90. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  91. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  92. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  93. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  94. William IV 1765 – 1837
  95. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  96. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  97. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  98. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  99. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  100. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  101. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  102. George IV 1762 – 1830
  103. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  104. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  105. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  106. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  107. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  108. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  109. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  110. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  111. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  112. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  113. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  114. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  115. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  116. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  117. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  118. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  119. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  120. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  121. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  122. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  123. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  124. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  125. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  126. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  127. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  128. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  129. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  130. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  131. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  132. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  133. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  134. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  135. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  136. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  137. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  138. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  139. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  140. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  141. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  142. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  143. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  144. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778 – 1850
  145. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  146. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  147. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  148. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  149. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  150. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799