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Kangxi Emperor
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Kangxi Emperor

Emperor of China

Born 4 May 1654 · died 20 December 1722, aged 68
Also known as Kangxi, Tiyuanzhuren, Shengzu

Who was alive at the same time as Kangxi Emperor?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  4. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  5. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  6. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  7. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  8. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. Kangxi Emperor, 1654 – 1722
  13. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  14. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  16. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  18. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  19. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  20. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  21. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  22. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  23. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778

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When Kangxi Emperor was born, Isaac Newton was 11, Molière was 32, John Locke was 21, Rembrandt was 47 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 7.

When Kangxi Emperor died, Isaac Newton was 79, Johann Sebastian Bach was 37, Voltaire was 28, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 10 and Benjamin Franklin was 16.

Born during Kangxi Emperor’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 10 years after Kangxi Emperor died, Galileo Galilei died about 12 years before Kangxi Emperor was born, René Descartes died about 4 years before Kangxi Emperor was born and Immanuel Kant was born about 2 years after Kangxi Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

194 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kangxi Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1688.

  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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  25. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  31. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  32. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  33. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  38. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  39. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  44. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  45. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  46. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  47. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  48. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  49. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  50. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  51. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  52. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  53. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  54. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  55. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  56. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  57. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  61. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  62. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  63. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  64. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  65. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  66. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  67. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  68. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  69. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  70. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  71. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  72. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  73. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  74. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  75. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  76. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  77. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  78. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  79. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  80. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  81. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  82. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  83. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  84. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  85. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  86. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  87. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  88. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  89. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  90. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  91. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  92. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  93. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  94. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  95. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  96. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  97. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  98. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  99. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  100. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  101. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  102. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  103. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  104. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  105. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  106. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  107. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  108. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  109. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  110. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  111. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  112. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  113. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  114. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  115. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  116. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  117. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  118. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  119. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  120. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  121. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  122. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  123. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  124. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  125. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  126. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  127. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  128. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  129. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  130. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  131. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  132. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  133. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  134. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  135. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  136. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  137. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  138. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  139. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  140. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  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. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  149. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  150. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703