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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Italian mathematician and philanthropist

Born 16 May 1718 · died 9 January 1799, aged 80
Also known as María Agnesi, Gaetana Agnesi, María Gaetana Agnesi

Who was alive at the same time as Maria Gaetana Agnesi?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 1718 – 1799
  9. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  10. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born, Isaac Newton was 75, Johann Sebastian Bach was 33, Voltaire was 23, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 5 and Benjamin Franklin was 12.

When Maria Gaetana Agnesi died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

Born during Maria Gaetana Agnesi’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: Abraham Lincoln was born about 10 years after Maria Gaetana Agnesi died, Charles Darwin was born about 10 years after Maria Gaetana Agnesi died, Victor Hugo was born about 3 years after Maria Gaetana Agnesi died and Charles Dickens was born about 13 years after Maria Gaetana Agnesi died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

390 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Maria Gaetana Agnesi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1759.

  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. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  30. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  31. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  32. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  33. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  34. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  35. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  37. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  38. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  39. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  40. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  41. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  42. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  43. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  44. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  45. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  46. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  47. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  48. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  49. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  50. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  51. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  52. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  53. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  54. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  55. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  56. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  57. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  58. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  59. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  60. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  61. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  62. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  63. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  64. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  65. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  66. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  67. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  68. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  69. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  70. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  71. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  72. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  73. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  74. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  75. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  76. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  77. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  78. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  79. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  80. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  81. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  82. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  83. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  84. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  85. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  86. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  87. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  88. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  89. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  90. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  91. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  92. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  93. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  94. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  95. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  96. George III 1738 – 1820
  97. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  98. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  99. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  100. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  101. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  102. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  103. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  104. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  105. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  106. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  107. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  108. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  109. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  110. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  111. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  112. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  113. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  114. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  115. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  116. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  117. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  118. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  119. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  120. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  121. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  122. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  123. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  124. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  125. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  126. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  127. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  128. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  129. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  130. William IV 1765 – 1837
  131. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  132. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  133. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  134. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  135. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  136. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  137. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  138. George IV 1762 – 1830
  139. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  140. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  141. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  142. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  143. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  144. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  145. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  146. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  147. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  148. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  149. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  150. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829