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Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

French physician and philosopher

Born 12–25 December 1709 · died 11 November 1751, aged 41
Also known as La Mettrie

Who was alive at the same time as Julien Offray de La Mettrie?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  7. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  13. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  14. Julien Offray de La Mettrie, 1709 – 1751
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  17. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  18. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  19. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  20. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  21. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  22. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  24. James Madison, 1751 – 1836

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When Julien Offray de La Mettrie was born, Isaac Newton was 66, Johann Sebastian Bach was 24, Voltaire was 15, Benjamin Franklin was 3 and Carl Linnaeus was 2.

When Julien Offray de La Mettrie died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 2, George Washington was 19, Voltaire was 56, Immanuel Kant was 27 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 39.

Born during Julien Offray de La Mettrie’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 5 years after Julien Offray de La Mettrie died, John Locke died about 5 years before Julien Offray de La Mettrie was born, Friedrich Schiller was born about 8 years after Julien Offray de La Mettrie died and Hokusai was born about 9 years after Julien Offray de La Mettrie died.

Where Julien Offray de La Mettrie’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

194 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1730.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  27. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  28. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  29. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  30. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  31. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  32. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  33. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  34. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  35. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  36. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  37. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  38. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  39. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  40. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  41. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  42. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  43. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  44. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  45. George III 1738 – 1820
  46. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  47. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  48. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  49. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  50. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  51. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  52. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  53. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  54. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  55. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  56. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  57. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  58. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  59. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  61. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  62. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  63. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  64. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  65. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  66. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  67. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  68. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  69. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  70. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  71. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  72. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  73. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  74. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  75. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  76. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  80. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  81. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  82. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  83. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  84. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  85. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  86. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  87. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  88. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  89. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  90. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  91. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  92. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  93. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  94. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  95. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  96. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  97. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  98. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  99. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  100. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  101. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  102. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  103. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  104. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  105. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  106. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  107. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  108. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  109. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  110. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  111. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  112. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  113. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  114. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  115. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  116. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  117. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  118. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  119. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  120. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  121. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  122. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  123. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  124. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  125. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  126. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  127. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  128. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  129. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  130. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  131. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  132. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  133. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  134. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  135. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  136. Caroline Herschel 1750 – 1848
  137. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  138. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  139. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  140. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  141. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  142. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  143. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  144. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  145. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  146. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  147. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  148. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  149. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  150. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770