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Pierre de Marivaux
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Pierre de Marivaux

French novelist and playwright

Born 4 February 1688 · died 11–12 February 1763, aged 75
Also known as Pierre Carlet, Pierre Marivaux, P'er Karle Marivo

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre de Marivaux?

  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. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  8. Pierre de Marivaux, 1688 – 1763
  9. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  10. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  11. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  12. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  14. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  15. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  16. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  17. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  18. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  19. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  20. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  21. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Pierre de Marivaux was born, Isaac Newton was 45, Johann Sebastian Bach was 2, John Locke was 55, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 41 and Matsuo Bashō was 43 or 44.

When Pierre de Marivaux died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 13, George Washington was 30, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 7, Voltaire was 68 and Immanuel Kant was 38.

Born during Pierre de Marivaux’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 6 years after Pierre de Marivaux died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 5 years after Pierre de Marivaux died, Molière died about 15 years before Pierre de Marivaux was born and Jane Austen was born about 12 years after Pierre de Marivaux died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

268 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pierre de Marivaux. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1726.

  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. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  26. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  27. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  28. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  29. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  30. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  31. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  32. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  33. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  34. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  35. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  36. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  37. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  38. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  39. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  42. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  43. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  44. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  45. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  46. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  47. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  48. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  49. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  50. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  51. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  52. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  53. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  54. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  55. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  56. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  57. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  58. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  59. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  60. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  61. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  62. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  63. George III 1738 – 1820
  64. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  65. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  66. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  67. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  68. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  69. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  70. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  71. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  72. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  73. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  74. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  75. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  76. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  77. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  78. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  79. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  80. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  81. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  82. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  83. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  84. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  85. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  86. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  87. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  88. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  89. George IV 1762 – 1830
  90. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  91. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  92. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  93. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  94. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  95. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  96. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  97. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  98. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  99. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  100. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  101. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  102. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  103. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  104. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  105. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  106. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  107. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  108. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  109. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  110. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  111. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  112. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  113. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  114. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  115. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  116. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  117. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  118. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  119. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  120. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  121. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  122. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  123. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  124. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  125. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  126. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  127. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  128. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  129. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  130. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  131. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  132. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  133. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  134. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  135. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  136. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  137. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  138. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  139. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  140. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  141. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  142. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  143. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  144. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  145. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  146. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  147. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  148. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  149. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  150. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793