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Pope Benedict XIII
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Pope Benedict XIII

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 2 February 1649 · died 21 February 1730, aged 81
Also known as Benedict XIII, Vincenzo Maria Orsini, Benedictus XIII

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Benedict XIII?

  1. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  4. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  5. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  6. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  7. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  8. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. Pope Benedict XIII, 1649 – 1730
  13. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  14. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  16. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  17. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  18. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  19. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  20. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  22. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  23. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  24. James Cook, 1728 – 1779

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When Pope Benedict XIII was born, Isaac Newton was 6, René Descartes was 52, Molière was 27, John Locke was 16 and Rembrandt was 42.

When Pope Benedict XIII died, Johann Sebastian Bach was 44, Voltaire was 35, Immanuel Kant was 5, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 17 and Adam Smith was 6.

Born during Pope Benedict XIII’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 2 years after Pope Benedict XIII died, Galileo Galilei died about 7 years before Pope Benedict XIII was born, Thomas Jefferson was born about 13 years after Pope Benedict XIII died and John Adams was born about 5 years after Pope Benedict XIII died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

217 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Benedict XIII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1690.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  15. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  19. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  20. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  23. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  26. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  29. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  30. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  31. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  32. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  33. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  34. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  35. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  36. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  37. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  38. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  39. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  40. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  41. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  42. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  43. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  44. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  45. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  46. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  47. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  48. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  49. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  50. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  51. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  52. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  53. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  54. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  55. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  56. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  57. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  58. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  59. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  60. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  61. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  62. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  63. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  64. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  65. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  66. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  67. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  69. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  70. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  71. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  72. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  73. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  74. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  75. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  76. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  77. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  78. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  79. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  80. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  81. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  82. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  83. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  84. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  85. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  86. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  87. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  88. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  89. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  90. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  91. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  92. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  93. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  94. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  95. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  96. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  97. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  98. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  99. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  100. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  101. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  102. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  103. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  104. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  105. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  106. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  107. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  108. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  109. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  110. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  111. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  112. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  113. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  114. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  115. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  116. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  117. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  118. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  119. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  120. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  121. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  122. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  123. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  124. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  125. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  126. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  127. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  128. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  129. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  130. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  131. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  132. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  133. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  134. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  135. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  136. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  137. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  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. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  144. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  145. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  146. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  147. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  148. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  149. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  150. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715