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Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith

Physician writer

Born 10 November 1728 · died 4 April 1774, aged 45
Also known as Oliver Goldsmit, Olver Goldsmith, Oliverus Goldsmith

Who was alive at the same time as Oliver Goldsmith?

  1. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  10. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  11. Oliver Goldsmith, 1728 – 1774
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  19. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  20. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  21. John Quincy Adams, 1767 – 1848
  22. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Oliver Goldsmith was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 43, Voltaire was 33, Immanuel Kant was 4, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 16 and Adam Smith was 5.

When Oliver Goldsmith died, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 79.

Born during Oliver Goldsmith’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and John Adams.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about a year before Oliver Goldsmith was born, Lord Byron was born about 14 years after Oliver Goldsmith died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 12 years before Oliver Goldsmith was born and Jane Austen was born about a year after Oliver Goldsmith died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

257 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Oliver Goldsmith. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1751.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  21. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  24. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  25. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  26. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  27. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  28. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  29. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  30. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  31. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  32. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  33. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  34. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  35. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  36. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  37. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  38. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  39. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  40. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  41. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  42. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  43. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  44. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  45. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  46. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  47. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  48. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  49. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  50. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  51. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  52. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  53. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  54. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  55. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  56. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  57. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  58. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  59. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  60. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  61. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  62. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  63. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  64. George III 1738 – 1820
  65. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  66. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  67. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  68. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  69. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  70. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  71. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  72. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  73. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  74. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  75. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  76. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  77. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  78. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  79. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  80. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  81. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  82. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  83. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  84. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  85. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  86. William IV 1765 – 1837
  87. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  88. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  89. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  90. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  91. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  92. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  93. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  94. George IV 1762 – 1830
  95. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  96. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  97. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  98. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  99. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  100. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  101. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  102. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  103. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  104. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  105. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  106. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  107. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  108. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  109. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  110. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  111. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  112. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  113. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  114. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  115. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  116. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  117. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  118. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  119. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  120. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  121. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  122. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  123. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  124. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  125. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  126. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  127. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  128. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  129. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  130. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  131. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  132. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  133. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  134. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  135. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  136. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  137. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  138. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  139. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  140. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  141. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  142. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  143. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  144. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  145. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  146. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  147. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  148. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  149. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  150. John Wesley 1703 – 1791