Who Was Alive
Leopold Mozart
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Leopold Mozart

German composer

Born 14 November 1719 · died 28 May 1787, aged 67
Also known as Johann Georg Leopold Mozart

Who was alive at the same time as Leopold Mozart?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  6. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  7. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  9. Leopold Mozart, 1719 – 1787
  10. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  11. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  12. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  13. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  14. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  15. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  16. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  19. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Leopold Mozart was born, Isaac Newton was 76, Johann Sebastian Bach was 34, Voltaire was 24, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 7 and Benjamin Franklin was 13.

When Leopold Mozart died, Napoleon was 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 37, George Washington was 55, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 31 and Immanuel Kant was 63.

Born during Leopold Mozart’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 15 years after Leopold Mozart died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 12 years after Leopold Mozart died, Lord Byron was born about a year after Leopold Mozart died and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 3 years before Leopold Mozart was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

324 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leopold Mozart. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1753.

  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. 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. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  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. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  42. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  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. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  63. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  64. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  65. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  66. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  67. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  68. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  69. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  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. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  76. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  77. George III 1738 – 1820
  78. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  79. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  80. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  81. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  82. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  83. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  84. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  85. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  86. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  87. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  88. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  89. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  90. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  91. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  92. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  93. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  94. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  95. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  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. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  117. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  118. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  119. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  120. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  121. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  122. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  123. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  124. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  125. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  126. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  127. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  128. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  129. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  130. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  131. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  132. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  133. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  134. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  135. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  136. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  137. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  138. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  139. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  140. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  141. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  142. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  143. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  144. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  145. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  146. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  147. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  148. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  149. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  150. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826