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Nader Shah
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Nader Shah

Shah

Born 1688–1698 · died 19–20 June 1747
Also known as Nāder Shāh Afshār, Nadir Shah, Nader Shah Afshar

Who was alive at the same time as Nader Shah?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  6. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  8. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  10. Nader Shah, c. 1693 – 1747
  11. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  12. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  13. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  14. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  15. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  17. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  18. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  19. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  20. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  21. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  22. James Watt, 1736 – 1819
  23. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  24. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828

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When Nader Shah died, George Washington was 15, Johann Sebastian Bach was 62, Voltaire was 52, Immanuel Kant was 23 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 34.

Born during Nader Shah’s lifetime: George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 2 years after Nader Shah died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 9 years after Nader Shah died, Friedrich Schiller was born about 12 years after Nader Shah died and Baruch Spinoza died about 11 years before Nader Shah was born.

Where Nader Shah’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

197 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nader Shah. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1723.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  24. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  25. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  26. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  27. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  32. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  33. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  34. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  35. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  36. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  38. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  41. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. George III 1738 – 1820
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  46. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  47. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  48. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  49. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  50. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  54. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  55. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  56. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  57. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  58. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  59. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  60. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  61. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  62. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  63. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  64. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  65. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  66. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  67. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  68. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  69. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  70. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  71. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  72. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  73. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  74. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  75. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  76. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  77. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  78. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  79. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  80. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  81. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  82. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  83. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  84. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  85. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  86. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  87. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  88. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  89. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  90. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  91. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  92. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  93. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  94. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  95. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  96. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  97. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  98. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  99. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  100. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  101. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  102. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  103. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  104. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  105. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  106. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  107. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  108. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  109. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  110. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  111. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  112. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  113. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  114. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  115. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  116. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  117. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  118. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  119. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  120. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  121. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  122. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  123. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  124. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  125. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  126. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  127. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  128. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  129. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  130. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  131. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  132. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  133. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  134. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  135. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  136. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  137. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  138. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  139. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  140. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  141. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  142. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  143. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  144. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  145. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  146. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  147. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  148. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  149. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  150. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703