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Pope Clement XI
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Pope Clement XI

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 22–23 July 1649 · died 19 March 1721, aged 71
Also known as Clement XI, Clemens PP. XI, pape Clement XI

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Clement XI?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  3. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  4. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  5. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  6. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  7. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  8. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  9. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  10. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  11. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  13. Pope Clement XI, 1649 – 1721
  14. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  15. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  16. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  17. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  18. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  19. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  20. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  21. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  22. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  23. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778

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When Pope Clement XI was born, Isaac Newton was 6, René Descartes was 53, Molière was 27, John Locke was 16 and Rembrandt was 43.

When Pope Clement XI died, Isaac Newton was 78, Johann Sebastian Bach was 35, Voltaire was 26, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 8 and Benjamin Franklin was 15.

Born during Pope Clement XI’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 11 years after Pope Clement XI died, Galileo Galilei died about 7 years before Pope Clement XI was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 3 years after Pope Clement XI died and Adam Smith was born about 2 years after Pope Clement XI died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

195 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Clement XI. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1685.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  10. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  23. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  24. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  25. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  30. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  31. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  32. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  33. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  34. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  46. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  47. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  51. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  58. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  59. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  65. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  66. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  67. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  68. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  69. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  70. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  71. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  72. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  73. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  74. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  75. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  76. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  77. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  78. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  79. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  80. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  81. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  82. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  83. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  84. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  85. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  86. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  87. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  88. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  89. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  90. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  91. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  92. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  93. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  94. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  95. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  96. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  97. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  98. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  99. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  100. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  101. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  102. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  103. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  104. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  105. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  106. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  107. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  108. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  109. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  110. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  111. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  112. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  113. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  114. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  115. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  116. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  117. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  118. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  119. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  120. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  121. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  122. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  123. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  124. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  125. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  126. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  127. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  128. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  129. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  130. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  131. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  132. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  133. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  134. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  135. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  136. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  137. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  138. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  139. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  140. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  141. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  142. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  143. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  144. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  145. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  146. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  147. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  148. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  149. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  150. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709