Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

The 150 best-known contemporaries

312 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1766.

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. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
27. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
37. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
38. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
41. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
42. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
43. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
44. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
45. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
46. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
47. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
48. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
49. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
50. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
51. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
52. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
53. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
54. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
55. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
56. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
57. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
58. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
59. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
60. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
61. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
62. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
63. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
64. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
65. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
66. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
67. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
68. Novalis 1772 – 1801
69. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
70. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
71. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
72. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
73. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
74. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
75. George III 1738 – 1820
76. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
77. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
78. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
79. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
80. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
81. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
82. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
83. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
84. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
85. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
86. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
87. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
88. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
89. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
90. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
91. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
92. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
93. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
94. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
95. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
96. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
97. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
98. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
99. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
100. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
101. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
102. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
103. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
104. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
105. William IV 1765 – 1837
106. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
107. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
108. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
109. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
110. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
111. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
112. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
113. George IV 1762 – 1830
114. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
115. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
116. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
117. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
118. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
119. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
120. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
121. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
122. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
123. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
124. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
125. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
126. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
127. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
128. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
129. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
130. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
131. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
132. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
133. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
134. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
135. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
136. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
137. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
138. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
139. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
140. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
141. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
142. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
143. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
144. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
145. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
146. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
147. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
148. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
149. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
150. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836