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Pope Clement XII
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Pope Clement XII

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 7 April 1652 · died 6 February 1740, aged 87
Also known as Clement XII, pape Clément XII, Klemens XII. Papst

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

  1. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  2. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  3. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  4. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  5. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  6. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  7. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  8. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  9. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  11. Pope Clement XII, 1652 – 1740
  12. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  13. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  15. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  16. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  17. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  18. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  20. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  21. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  22. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  23. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  24. John Adams, 1735 – 1826

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When Pope Clement XII was born, Isaac Newton was 9, Molière was 30, John Locke was 19, Rembrandt was 45 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 5.

When Pope Clement XII died, George Washington was 7, Johann Sebastian Bach was 54, Voltaire was 45, Immanuel Kant was 15 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 27.

Born during Pope Clement XII’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 9 years after Pope Clement XII died, Galileo Galilei died about 10 years before Pope Clement XII was born, René Descartes died about 2 years before Pope Clement XII was born and Thomas Jefferson was born about 3 years after Pope Clement XII died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

236 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Clement XII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1696.

  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. 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. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  26. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  35. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  36. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  37. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  38. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  39. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  40. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  41. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  42. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  43. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  44. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  45. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  46. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  47. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  48. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  49. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  50. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  51. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  52. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  53. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  54. George III 1738 – 1820
  55. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  56. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  57. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  58. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  59. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  60. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  61. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  62. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  63. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  64. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  65. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  66. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  67. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  68. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  69. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  70. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  71. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  72. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  73. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  74. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  75. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  76. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  77. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  78. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  79. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  80. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  81. William III of England 1650 – 1702
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  84. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
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  86. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  87. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
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  107. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
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  112. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
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  114. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  115. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
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  120. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  121. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  122. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  123. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  124. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  125. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  126. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  127. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  128. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  129. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  130. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  131. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  132. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  133. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  134. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  135. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  136. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  137. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  138. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  139. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  140. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  141. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
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  144. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
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  146. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  147. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  148. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  149. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  150. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772