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Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Johann Heinrich Lambert

German mathematician and physicist

Born 26 August 1728 · died 25 September 1777, aged 49
Also known as Jean-Henri Lambert

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Heinrich Lambert?

  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. Johann Heinrich Lambert, 1728 – 1777
  10. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  11. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  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 Heinrich Lambert was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 43, Voltaire was 33, Immanuel Kant was 4, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 16 and Adam Smith was 5.

When Johann Heinrich Lambert died, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 and Voltaire was 82.

Born during Johann Heinrich Lambert’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about a year before Johann Heinrich Lambert was born, Lord Byron was born about 11 years after Johann Heinrich Lambert died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 12 years before Johann Heinrich Lambert was born and Louis XIV died about 13 years before Johann Heinrich Lambert was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

271 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Heinrich Lambert. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1753.

  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. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  39. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  40. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  41. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  42. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  43. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  44. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  45. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  46. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  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. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  65. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  66. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  67. George III 1738 – 1820
  68. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  69. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  70. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  71. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  72. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  73. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  74. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  75. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  76. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  77. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  78. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  79. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  80. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  81. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  82. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  83. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  84. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  85. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  86. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  87. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  88. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  89. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  90. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  91. William IV 1765 – 1837
  92. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  93. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  94. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  95. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  96. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  97. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  98. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  99. George IV 1762 – 1830
  100. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  101. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  102. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  103. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  104. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  105. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  106. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  107. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  108. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  109. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  110. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  111. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  112. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  113. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  114. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  115. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  116. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  117. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  118. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  119. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  120. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  121. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  122. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  123. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  124. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  125. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  126. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  127. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  128. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  129. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  130. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  131. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  132. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  133. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  134. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  135. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  136. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  137. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  138. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  139. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  140. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  141. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  142. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  143. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  144. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  145. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  146. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  147. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  148. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  149. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  150. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740