Who Was Alive

Were Peter the Great and Johann Sebastian Bach alive at the same time?

Yes. Peter the Great and Johann Sebastian Bach were alive at the same time for 39 years, from 1685 to 1725.

Peter the Great was 12 when Johann Sebastian Bach was born.

Johann Sebastian Bach was 39 when Peter the Great died, aged 52.

Peter the Great

Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725

Born 30 May 1672 (Julian calendar) · died 28 January 1725 (Julian calendar), aged 52

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Born 21 March 1685 (Julian calendar) · died 28 July 1750, aged 65

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Peter the Great
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peter the Great and Johann Sebastian Bach in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.