Who Was Alive

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian polymath

Born 8 November 1711 (Julian calendar) · died 4 April 1765 (Julian calendar), aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Lomonosov?

  1. Louis XIV of France
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  4. Peter the Great
  5. Antonio Vivaldi
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach
  7. Voltaire
  8. Benjamin Franklin
  9. Leonhard Euler
  10. Carl Linnaeus
  11. Mikhail Lomonosov
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. Adam Smith
  14. Immanuel Kant
  15. James Cook
  16. George Washington
  17. John Adams
  18. Thomas Jefferson
  19. Francisco Goya
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  21. James Madison
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  23. Friedrich Schiller
  24. Katsushika Hokusai
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When Mikhail Lomonosov was born, Isaac Newton was 68, Johann Sebastian Bach was 26, Voltaire was 16, Benjamin Franklin was 5 and Carl Linnaeus was 4.

When Mikhail Lomonosov died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 15, George Washington was 33, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 9, Voltaire was 70 and Immanuel Kant was 40.

Born during Mikhail Lomonosov’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith and John Adams.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born 4 years after Mikhail Lomonosov died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born 3 years after Mikhail Lomonosov died, John Locke died 7 years before Mikhail Lomonosov was born and Jane Austen was born 10 years after Mikhail Lomonosov died.

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All 86 contemporaries we track

  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  18. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  27. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  32. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  36. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  37. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  38. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  39. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  40. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  41. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  42. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  43. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  44. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  45. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  46. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  47. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  49. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  50. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  52. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  53. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  54. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  55. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  57. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  59. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  60. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  61. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  62. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  63. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  64. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  65. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  66. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  67. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  68. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  69. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  70. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  71. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  72. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  73. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  74. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  75. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  76. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  77. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  78. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  79. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  80. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  81. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  82. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  83. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  84. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  85. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  86. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810