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Mustafa II
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Mustafa II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 5 June 1664 · died 28 December 1703, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Mustafa 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. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  7. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  8. Johannes Vermeer, 1632 – 1675
  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. Mustafa II, 1664 – 1703
  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 Mustafa II was born, Isaac Newton was 21, Molière was 42, John Locke was 31, Rembrandt was 57 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 17.

When Mustafa II died, Isaac Newton was 60, Johann Sebastian Bach was 18, Voltaire was 9, John Locke was 71 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 57.

Born during Mustafa 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 14 years before Mustafa II was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 9 years after Mustafa II died, Benjamin Franklin was born about 3 years after Mustafa II died and Carl Linnaeus was born about 4 years after Mustafa II died.

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Where Mustafa II’s contemporaries were born

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The 139 best-known contemporaries

139 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mustafa II. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1684.

  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. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  10. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  11. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  12. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  13. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  14. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  20. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  21. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  22. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  23. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  25. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  26. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  27. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  28. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  29. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  30. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  31. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  32. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  33. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  34. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  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. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  49. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  50. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  51. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  52. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  53. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  54. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  55. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  56. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  57. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  58. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  59. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  60. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  61. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  62. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  63. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  64. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  65. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  66. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  67. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  68. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  69. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  70. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  71. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  72. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  73. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  74. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  75. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  76. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  77. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  78. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  79. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  80. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  81. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  82. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  83. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  84. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  85. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  86. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  87. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  88. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  89. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  90. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  91. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  92. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  93. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  94. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  95. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  96. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  97. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  98. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  99. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  100. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  101. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  102. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  103. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  104. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  105. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  106. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  107. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  108. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  109. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  110. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  111. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  112. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  113. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  114. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  115. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  116. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  117. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  118. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  119. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  120. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  121. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  122. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  123. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  124. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  125. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  126. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  127. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  128. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  129. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  130. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  131. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  132. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  133. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  134. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  135. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  136. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  137. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  138. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  139. François Boucher 1703 – 1770