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Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison

English essayist and poet

Born 1 May 1672 · died 17 June 1719, aged 47
Also known as Joseph Addisson, Right Hon. Joseph Addison, Jozef Adddison

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Addison?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  3. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  4. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  6. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  7. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  8. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  9. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  11. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  12. Joseph Addison, 1672 – 1719
  13. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  14. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  15. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  16. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  17. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  18. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  19. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  20. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  21. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  22. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  24. Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784

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When Joseph Addison was born, Isaac Newton was 29, Molière was 50, John Locke was 39, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 25 and Matsuo Bashō was 27 or 28.

When Joseph Addison died, Isaac Newton was 76, Johann Sebastian Bach was 34, Voltaire was 24, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 6 and Benjamin Franklin was 13.

Born during Joseph Addison’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 13 years after Joseph Addison died, Immanuel Kant was born about 5 years after Joseph Addison died, Adam Smith was born about 4 years after Joseph Addison died and Rembrandt died about 3 years before Joseph Addison was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Addison. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1696.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  25. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  26. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  27. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  28. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  29. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  32. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  33. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  34. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  40. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  41. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  42. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  43. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  49. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  50. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  51. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  52. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  53. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  54. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  55. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  56. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  57. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  58. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  59. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  60. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  61. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  62. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  63. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  64. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  65. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  66. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  67. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  68. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  69. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  70. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  71. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  72. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  73. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  74. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  75. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  76. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  77. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  78. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  79. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  80. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  81. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  82. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  83. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  84. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  85. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  86. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  87. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  88. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  89. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  90. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  91. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  92. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  93. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  94. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  95. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  96. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  97. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  98. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  99. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  100. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  101. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  102. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  103. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  104. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  105. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  106. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  107. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  108. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  109. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  110. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  111. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  112. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  113. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  114. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  115. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  116. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  117. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  118. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  119. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  120. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  121. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  122. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  123. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  124. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  125. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  126. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  127. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  128. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  129. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  130. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  131. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  132. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  133. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  134. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  135. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  136. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  137. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  138. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  139. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  140. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  141. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  142. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  143. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  144. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  145. Peter III of Portugal 1717 – 1786
  146. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  147. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  148. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  149. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  150. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713