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Osman III
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Osman III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 2 January 1699 · died 30 October 1757, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Osman III?

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  10. Osman III, 1699 – 1757
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  13. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  15. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  16. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  17. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  18. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  19. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  20. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  21. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  22. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  23. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791

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When Osman III was born, Isaac Newton was 55, Johann Sebastian Bach was 13, Voltaire was 4, John Locke was 66 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 52.

When Osman III died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 8, George Washington was 25, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 1, Voltaire was 62 and Immanuel Kant was 33.

Born during Osman III’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 12 years after Osman III died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 11 years after Osman III died, Matsuo Bashō died about 5 years before Osman III was born and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born about 13 years after Osman III died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

227 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Osman III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1728.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  26. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  29. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  30. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  31. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  32. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  33. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  34. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  35. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  36. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  37. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  38. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  39. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  40. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  41. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  42. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  43. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  44. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  45. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  46. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  47. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  48. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  49. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  50. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  51. George III 1738 – 1820
  52. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  53. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  54. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  55. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  56. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  57. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  58. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  59. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  60. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  61. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  62. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  63. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  64. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  65. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  66. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  67. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  68. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  69. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  70. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  71. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  72. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  73. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  74. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  75. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  76. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  77. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  78. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  79. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  80. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  81. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  82. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  83. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  84. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  85. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  86. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  87. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  88. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  89. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  90. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  91. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  92. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  93. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  94. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  95. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  96. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  97. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  98. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  99. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  100. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  101. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  102. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  103. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  104. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  105. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  106. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  107. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  108. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  109. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  110. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  111. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  112. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  113. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  114. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  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. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  128. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  129. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  130. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  131. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  132. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  133. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  134. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  135. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  136. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  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. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  146. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  147. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  148. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  149. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  150. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816