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Philip V of Spain
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Philip V of Spain

Monarch of Spain

Born 19 December 1683 · died 9 July 1746, aged 62
Also known as Philip V, Felipe V

Who was alive at the same time as Philip V of Spain?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  7. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  8. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  9. Philip V of Spain, 1683 – 1746
  10. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  12. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  13. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  14. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  15. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  16. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  19. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  20. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  21. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  22. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  23. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  24. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828

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When Philip V of Spain was born, Isaac Newton was 40, John Locke was 51, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 37, Matsuo Bashō was 38 or 39 and Louis XIV was 45.

When Philip V of Spain died, George Washington was 14, Johann Sebastian Bach was 61, Voltaire was 51, Immanuel Kant was 22 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 34.

Born during Philip V of Spain’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 3 years after Philip V of Spain died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 10 years after Philip V of Spain died, Molière died about 10 years before Philip V of Spain was born and Rembrandt died about 14 years before Philip V of Spain was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

218 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Philip V of Spain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1715.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  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. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  20. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  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. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  28. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  29. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  30. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  31. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  34. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  35. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  36. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  37. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  38. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  39. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  40. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  41. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  42. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  43. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  44. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  45. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  46. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  47. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  48. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  49. George III 1738 – 1820
  50. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  51. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  52. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  53. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  54. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  55. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  56. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  57. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  58. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  59. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  60. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  61. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  62. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  63. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  64. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  65. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  66. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  67. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  68. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  69. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  70. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  71. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  72. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  73. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  74. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  75. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  76. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  77. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  78. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  79. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  80. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  81. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  82. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  83. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  84. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  85. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  86. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  87. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  88. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  89. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  90. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  91. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  92. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  93. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  94. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  95. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  96. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  97. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  98. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  99. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  100. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  101. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  102. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  103. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  104. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  105. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  106. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  107. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  108. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  109. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  110. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  111. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  112. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  113. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  114. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  115. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  116. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  117. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  118. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  119. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  120. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  121. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  122. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  123. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  124. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  125. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  126. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  127. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  128. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  129. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  130. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  131. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  132. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  133. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  134. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  135. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  136. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  137. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  138. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  139. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  140. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  141. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  142. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  143. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  144. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  145. Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746 – 1817
  146. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  147. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  148. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  149. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  150. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708