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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

French astronomer

Born 15 March 1713 · died 21 March 1762, aged 49
Also known as Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de La Caille, Louis de la Caille

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  5. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  8. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  9. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  10. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  12. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, 1713 – 1762
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was born, Isaac Newton was 70, Johann Sebastian Bach was 27, Voltaire was 18, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was under a year old and Benjamin Franklin was 7.

When Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 12, George Washington was 30, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 6, Voltaire was 67 and Immanuel Kant was 37.

Born during Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 7 years after Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 6 years after Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille died, John Locke died about 9 years before Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was born and Jane Austen was born about 13 years after Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

223 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1738.

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  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 1638 – 1715
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  36. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  37. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  38. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  40. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  41. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  42. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  43. Frederick the Great 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. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  52. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  53. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  54. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  55. George III 1738 – 1820
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  57. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa 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, 1st Viscount 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. Pope 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, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  77. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  78. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  79. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  80. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  81. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  82. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  83. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  84. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  85. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  86. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  87. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  88. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  89. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  90. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  91. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  92. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  93. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  94. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  95. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  96. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  97. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  98. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  99. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  100. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  101. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  102. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  103. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  104. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  105. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  106. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  107. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  108. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  109. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  110. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  111. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  112. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  113. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  114. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  115. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  116. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  117. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  118. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  119. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  120. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  121. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  122. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  123. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  124. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  125. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  126. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  127. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  128. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  129. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  130. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  131. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  132. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  133. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  134. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  135. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  136. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  137. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  138. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  139. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  140. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  141. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  142. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  143. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  144. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  145. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  146. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  147. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  148. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  149. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  150. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791