Who Was Alive
Mary II
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Mary II

Monarch of Scotland

Born 30 April 1662 (Julian calendar) · died 28 December 1694 (Julian calendar), aged 32
Also known as Mary II of England, Lady Mary of England, Mary II Stuart

Who was alive at the same time as Mary II?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  3. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  4. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  5. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  6. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  7. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  8. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  9. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  10. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  11. Jean Racine, 1639 – 1699
  12. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  13. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  15. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  16. Mary II, 1662 – 1694
  17. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  18. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  20. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  22. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Mary II was born, Isaac Newton was 19, Molière was 40, John Locke was 29, Rembrandt was 55 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 15.

When Mary II died, Isaac Newton was 52, Johann Sebastian Bach was 9, Voltaire was under a year old, John Locke was 62 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 48.

Born during Mary II’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, Montesquieu, George Frideric Handel and Alexander Pope.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes died about 12 years before Mary II was born, Benjamin Franklin was born about 11 years after Mary II died, Carl Linnaeus was born about 12 years after Mary II died and Leonhard Euler was born about 12 years after Mary II died.

What happened in Mary II’s lifetime

Where Mary II’s contemporaries were born

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The 128 best-known contemporaries

128 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mary II. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1679.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  15. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  21. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  22. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  23. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  24. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  25. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  26. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  27. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  28. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  29. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  30. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  31. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  32. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  33. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  34. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  35. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  36. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  37. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  38. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  39. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  40. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  41. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  42. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  43. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  44. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  45. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  46. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  47. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  48. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  49. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  50. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  51. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  52. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  53. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  54. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  55. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  56. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  57. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  58. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  59. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  60. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  61. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  62. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  63. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  64. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  65. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  66. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  67. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  68. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  69. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  70. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  71. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  72. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  73. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  74. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  75. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  76. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  77. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  78. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  79. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  80. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  81. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  82. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  83. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  84. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  85. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  86. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  87. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  88. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  89. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  90. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  91. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  92. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  93. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  94. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  95. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  96. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  97. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  98. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  99. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  100. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  101. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  102. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  103. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  104. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  105. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  106. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  107. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  108. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  109. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  110. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  111. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  112. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  113. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  114. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  115. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  116. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  117. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  118. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  119. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  120. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  121. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  122. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  123. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  124. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  125. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  126. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  127. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  128. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740