Who Was Alive

Benedict XIV

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758

Born 31 March 1675 · died 3 May 1758, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Benedict XIV?

  1. John Locke
  2. Benedictus de Spinoza
  3. Louis XIV of France
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. Matsuo Bashō
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  7. Peter the Great
  8. Benedict XIV
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach
  10. Voltaire
  11. Benjamin Franklin
  12. Leonhard Euler
  13. Carl Linnaeus
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  15. Adam Smith
  16. Immanuel Kant
  17. James Cook
  18. George Washington
  19. John Adams
  20. Thomas Jefferson
  21. Francisco Goya
  22. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. James Madison
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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When Benedict XIV was born, Isaac Newton was 32, John Locke was 42, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 28, Matsuo Bashō was 30 or 31 and Louis XIV of France was 36.

When Benedict XIV died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 8, George Washington was 26, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 2, Voltaire was 63 and Immanuel Kant was 34.

Born during Benedict XIV’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born 11 years after Benedict XIV died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born 10 years after Benedict XIV died, Molière died 2 years before Benedict XIV was born and Rembrandt died 6 years before Benedict XIV was born.

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All 93 contemporaries we track

  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  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 of France 1638 – 1715
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  26. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  27. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  28. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  31. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  32. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  33. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  34. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  35. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  36. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  37. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  38. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  39. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  43. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  44. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  45. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  46. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  47. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  48. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  49. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  50. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  51. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  52. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  53. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  54. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  55. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  56. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  57. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  58. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  59. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  60. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  61. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  62. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  63. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  64. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  65. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  66. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  67. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  68. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  69. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  70. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  71. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  72. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  73. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  74. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  75. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  76. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  77. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  78. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  79. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  80. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  81. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  82. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  83. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  84. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  85. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  86. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  87. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  88. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  89. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  90. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  91. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  92. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  93. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810