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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 26 July 1678 · died 17 April 1711, aged 32
Also known as Josef I

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  3. Robert Boyle, 1627 – 1691
  4. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  5. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  6. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  7. Jean Racine, 1639 – 1699
  8. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  9. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  11. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  12. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  13. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  14. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  15. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1678 – 1711
  16. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  18. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  19. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  20. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  21. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  22. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  23. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  24. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784

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When Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Isaac Newton was 35, John Locke was 45, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 32, Matsuo Bashō was 33 or 34 and Louis XIV was 39.

When Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Isaac Newton was 68, Johann Sebastian Bach was 26, Voltaire was 16, Benjamin Franklin was 5 and Carl Linnaeus was 3.

Born during Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Montesquieu, George Frideric Handel and Samuel Johnson.

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant was born about 13 years after Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about a year after Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Molière died about 5 years before Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor was born and Adam Smith was born about 12 years after Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 138 best-known contemporaries

138 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1695.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  5. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  10. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  13. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  14. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  17. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  18. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  19. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  20. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  21. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  22. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  23. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  24. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  25. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  26. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  27. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  28. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  29. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  30. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  31. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  32. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  33. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  34. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  35. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  36. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  37. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  38. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  39. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  40. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  41. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  42. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  43. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  44. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  45. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  46. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  47. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  48. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  49. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  50. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  51. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  52. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  53. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  54. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  55. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  56. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  57. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  58. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  59. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  60. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  61. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  62. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  63. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  64. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  65. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  66. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  67. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  68. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  69. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  70. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  71. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  72. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  73. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  74. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  75. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  76. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  77. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  78. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  79. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  80. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  81. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  82. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  83. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  84. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  85. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  86. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  87. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  88. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  89. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  90. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  91. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  92. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  93. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  94. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  95. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  96. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  97. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  98. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  99. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  100. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  101. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  102. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  103. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  104. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  105. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  106. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  107. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  108. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  109. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  110. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  111. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  112. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  113. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  114. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  115. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  116. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  117. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  118. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  119. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  120. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  121. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  122. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  123. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  124. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  125. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  126. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  127. Émilie du Châtelet 1706 – 1749
  128. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  129. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  130. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  131. Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709 – 1751
  132. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  133. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  134. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  135. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  136. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  137. Louis I of Spain 1707 – 1724
  138. François Boucher 1703 – 1770