Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

The 150 best-known contemporaries

317 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1770.

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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
31. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
37. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
39. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
40. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
41. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
42. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
43. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
44. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
45. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
46. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
47. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
48. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
49. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
50. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
51. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
52. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
53. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
54. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
55. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
56. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
57. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
58. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
59. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
60. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
61. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
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. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
70. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
71. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
72. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
73. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
74. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
75. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
76. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
77. George III 1738 – 1820
78. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
79. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
80. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
81. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
82. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
83. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
84. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
85. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
86. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
87. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
88. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
89. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
90. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
91. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
92. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
93. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
94. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
95. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
96. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
97. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
98. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
99. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
100. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
101. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
102. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
103. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
104. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
105. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
106. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
107. William IV 1765 – 1837
108. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
109. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
110. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
111. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
112. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
113. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
114. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
115. George IV 1762 – 1830
116. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
117. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
118. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
119. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
120. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
121. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
122. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
123. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
124. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
125. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
126. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
127. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
128. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
129. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
130. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
131. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
132. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
133. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
134. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
135. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
136. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
137. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
138. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
139. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
140. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
141. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
142. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
143. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
144. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
145. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
146. Jean-François Champollion 1790 – 1832
147. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
148. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
149. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
150. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826