Who Was Alive

Louis XV of France

King of France and Navarre 1715 to 1774

Born 15 February 1710 · died 10 May 1774, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Louis XV of France?

  1. Louis XIV of France
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  4. Peter the Great
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach
  6. Voltaire
  7. Benjamin Franklin
  8. Leonhard Euler
  9. Carl Linnaeus
  10. Louis XV of France
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  12. Adam Smith
  13. Immanuel Kant
  14. James Cook
  15. George Washington
  16. John Adams
  17. Thomas Jefferson
  18. Francisco Goya
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  21. Friedrich Schiller
  22. Ludwig van Beethoven
  23. Napoleon
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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When Louis XV of France was born, Isaac Newton was 67, Johann Sebastian Bach was 24, Voltaire was 15, Benjamin Franklin was 4 and Carl Linnaeus was 2.

When Louis XV of France died, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 79.

Born during Louis XV of France’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born 14 years after Louis XV of France died, John Locke died 6 years before Louis XV of France was born, Jane Austen was born about a year after Louis XV of France died and Carl Friedrich Gauss was born 3 years after Louis XV of France died.

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All 110 contemporaries we track

  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  37. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  40. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  41. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  42. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  43. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  44. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  45. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  46. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  47. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  48. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  49. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  50. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  51. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  52. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  53. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  54. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  55. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  56. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  57. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  58. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  59. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  60. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  61. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  62. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  63. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  64. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  65. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  66. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  67. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  68. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  69. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  70. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  71. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  72. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  73. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  74. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  75. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  76. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  77. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  78. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  79. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  80. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  81. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  82. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  83. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  84. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  85. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  86. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  87. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  88. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  89. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  90. William IV 1765 – 1837
  91. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  92. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  93. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  94. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  95. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  96. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  97. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  98. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  99. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  100. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  101. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  102. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  103. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  104. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  105. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  106. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  107. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  108. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  109. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  110. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817