Who Was Alive
Joshua Reynolds
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Joshua Reynolds

British painter

Born 16 July 1723 · died 23 February 1792, aged 68
Also known as J. Reynolds, Sir Jos Reynolds, Sir J. Reynolds

Who was alive at the same time as Joshua Reynolds?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Joshua Reynolds, 1723 – 1792
  10. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Joshua Reynolds was born, Isaac Newton was 80, Johann Sebastian Bach was 38, Voltaire was 28, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 11 and Adam Smith was under a year old.

When Joshua Reynolds died, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 67 and Thomas Jefferson was 48.

Born during Joshua Reynolds’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson and Lord Byron.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 10 years after Joshua Reynolds died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 7 years after Joshua Reynolds died, Hans Christian Andersen was born about 13 years after Joshua Reynolds died and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 7 years before Joshua Reynolds was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

345 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joshua Reynolds. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1758.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  30. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  34. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  42. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  43. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  44. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  47. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  48. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  49. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  50. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  51. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  52. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  53. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  54. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  55. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  56. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  57. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  58. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  59. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  60. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  61. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  62. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  63. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  64. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  65. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  66. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  67. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  68. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  69. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  70. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  71. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  72. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  73. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  74. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  75. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  76. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  77. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  78. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  79. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  80. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  81. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  82. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  83. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  84. George III 1738 – 1820
  85. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  86. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  87. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  88. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  89. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  90. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  91. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  92. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  93. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  94. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  95. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  96. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  97. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  98. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  99. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  100. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  101. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  102. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  103. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  104. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  105. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  106. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  107. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  108. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  109. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  110. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  111. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  112. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  113. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  114. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  115. William IV 1765 – 1837
  116. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  117. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  118. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  119. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  120. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  121. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  122. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  123. George IV 1762 – 1830
  124. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  125. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  126. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  127. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  128. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  129. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  130. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  131. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  132. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  133. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  134. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  135. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  136. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  137. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  138. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  139. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  140. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  141. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  142. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  143. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  144. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  145. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  146. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  147. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  148. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  149. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  150. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793