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Madame de Pompadour
François-Hubert Drouais, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Madame de Pompadour

French mistress

Born 29 December 1721 · died 15 April 1764, aged 42
Also known as M.e De Pompadour, M.e Pompadour, Marquise De Pompadour

Who was alive at the same time as Madame de Pompadour?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  3. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  4. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Madame de Pompadour, 1721 – 1764
  12. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  13. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  14. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  15. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  16. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  17. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  18. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  20. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  22. William Blake, 1757 – 1827
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Madame de Pompadour was born, Isaac Newton was 78, Johann Sebastian Bach was 36, Voltaire was 27, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 9 and Benjamin Franklin was 15.

When Madame de Pompadour died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 14, George Washington was 32, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 8, Voltaire was 69 and Immanuel Kant was 39.

Born during Madame de Pompadour’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 5 years after Madame de Pompadour died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 4 years after Madame de Pompadour died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 5 years before Madame de Pompadour was born and Jane Austen was born about 11 years after Madame de Pompadour died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

218 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Madame de Pompadour. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1743.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  20. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  23. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  26. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  29. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  30. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  31. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  32. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  33. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  34. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  35. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  36. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  37. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  38. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  39. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  40. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  41. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  42. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  43. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  44. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  45. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  46. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  47. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  48. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  49. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  50. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  51. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  52. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  53. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  54. George III 1738 – 1820
  55. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  56. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  57. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  58. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  59. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  60. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  61. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  62. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  63. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  64. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  65. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  66. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  67. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  68. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  69. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  70. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  71. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  72. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  73. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  74. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  75. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  76. George IV 1762 – 1830
  77. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  78. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  79. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  80. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  81. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  82. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  83. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  84. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  85. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  86. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  87. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  88. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  89. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  90. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  91. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  92. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  93. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  94. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  95. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  96. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  97. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  98. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  99. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  100. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  101. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  102. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  103. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  104. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  105. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  106. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  107. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  108. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  109. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  110. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  111. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  112. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  113. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  114. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  115. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  116. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  117. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  118. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  119. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  120. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  121. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  122. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  123. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  124. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  125. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  126. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  127. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  128. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  129. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  130. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  131. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  132. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  133. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  134. Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763 – 1814
  135. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  136. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  137. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  138. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  139. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  140. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  141. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  142. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  143. Jean Paul 1763 – 1825
  144. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  145. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  146. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  147. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  148. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  149. William Godwin 1756 – 1836
  150. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736