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Peter III of Russia
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Peter III of Russia

Emperor of all the Russias

Born 10 February 1728 (Julian calendar) · died 6 July 1762 (Julian calendar), aged 34
Also known as Karl Peter Ulrich

Who was alive at the same time as Peter III of Russia?

  1. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  2. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  3. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  6. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. Peter III of Russia, 1728 – 1762
  14. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  15. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  16. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  17. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  18. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  20. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  22. William Blake, 1757 – 1827
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Peter III of Russia was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 42, Voltaire was 33, Immanuel Kant was 3, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 15 and Adam Smith was 4.

When Peter III of Russia died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 12, George Washington was 30, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 6, Voltaire was 67 and Immanuel Kant was 38.

Born during Peter III of Russia’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Cook, Francisco Goya and Friedrich Schiller.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about a year before Peter III of Russia was born, Napoleon was born about 7 years after Peter III of Russia died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 6 years after Peter III of Russia died and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 12 years before Peter III of Russia was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

204 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Peter III of Russia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1745.

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  13. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  14. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  15. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  16. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  17. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  18. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  25. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  26. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  27. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  28. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  29. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  30. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  31. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  34. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  35. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  36. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  37. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  38. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  39. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  40. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  41. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  42. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  43. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  44. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  45. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  46. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  47. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  48. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  49. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  50. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  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. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  60. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  61. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  62. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  63. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  64. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  65. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  66. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  67. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  68. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  69. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  70. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  71. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  72. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  73. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  74. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  75. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  76. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  77. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  78. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  79. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  80. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  81. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  82. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  83. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  84. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  85. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  86. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  87. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  88. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  89. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  90. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  91. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  92. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  93. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  94. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  95. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  96. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  97. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  98. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  99. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  100. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  101. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  102. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  103. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  104. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  105. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  106. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  107. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  108. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  109. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  110. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  111. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  112. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  113. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  114. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  115. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  116. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  117. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  118. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  119. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  120. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  121. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  122. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  123. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  124. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  125. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  126. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  127. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  128. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  129. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  130. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813
  131. Antonio Salieri 1750 – 1825
  132. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  133. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  134. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  135. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  136. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
  137. William Godwin 1756 – 1836
  138. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  139. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  140. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  141. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1760 – 1836
  142. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  143. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  144. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747 – 1792
  145. Caroline Herschel 1750 – 1848
  146. Joseph de Maistre 1753 – 1821
  147. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  148. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  149. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  150. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757