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Mustafa III
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Mustafa III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 28 January 1717 · died 21 January 1774, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Mustafa III?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  6. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  7. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  9. Mustafa III, 1717 – 1774
  10. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  11. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  12. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  13. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  14. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  15. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  16. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  20. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  21. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  22. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Mustafa III was born, Isaac Newton was 74, Johann Sebastian Bach was 31, Voltaire was 22, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 4 and Benjamin Franklin was 11.

When Mustafa III died, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 41, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 17 and Voltaire was 79.

Born during Mustafa III’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: Lord Byron was born about 14 years after Mustafa III died, John Locke died about 13 years before Mustafa III was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about a year before Mustafa III was born and Jane Austen was born about a year after Mustafa III died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

272 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mustafa III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1746.

  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. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  26. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  39. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  40. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  41. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  42. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  43. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  44. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  45. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  46. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  47. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  48. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  49. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  50. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  51. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  52. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  53. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  54. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  55. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  56. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  57. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  58. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  59. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  60. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  61. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  62. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  63. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  64. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  65. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  66. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  67. George III 1738 – 1820
  68. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  69. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  70. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  71. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  72. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  73. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  74. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  75. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  76. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  77. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  78. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  79. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  80. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  81. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  82. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  83. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  84. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  85. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  86. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  87. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  88. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  89. William IV 1765 – 1837
  90. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  91. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  92. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  93. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  94. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  95. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  96. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  97. George IV 1762 – 1830
  98. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  99. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  100. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  101. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  102. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  103. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  104. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  105. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  106. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  107. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  108. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  109. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  110. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  111. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  112. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  113. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  114. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  115. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  116. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  117. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  118. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  119. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  120. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  121. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  122. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  123. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  124. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  125. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  126. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  127. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  128. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  129. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  130. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  131. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  132. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  133. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  134. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  135. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  136. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  137. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  138. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  139. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  140. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  141. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  142. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  143. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  144. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  145. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  146. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  147. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  148. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  149. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  150. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727