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Pope Clement XIV
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Pope Clement XIV

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 31 October 1705 · died 22 September 1774, aged 68
Also known as Clement XIV, Clemens XIV, Fra Lorenzo

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

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  7. Pope Clement XIV, 1705 – 1774
  8. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  9. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  10. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  12. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  13. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  14. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  15. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  16. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  17. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  18. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  21. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  22. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Pope Clement XIV was born, Isaac Newton was 62, Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, Voltaire was 10, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 59 and Louis XIV was 67.

When Pope Clement XIV died, Napoleon was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 25, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 79.

Born during Pope Clement XIV’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born about 14 years after Pope Clement XIV died, John Locke died about a year before Pope Clement XIV was born, Jane Austen was born about a year after Pope Clement XIV died and Matsuo Bashō died about 11 years before Pope Clement XIV was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

291 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Clement XIV. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1740.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  31. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  37. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  40. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  41. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  42. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  43. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  44. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  45. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  46. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  47. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  48. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  49. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  50. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  51. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  52. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  53. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  54. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  55. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  56. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  57. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  58. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  59. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  60. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  61. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  62. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  63. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  64. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  65. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  66. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  67. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  68. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  69. George III 1738 – 1820
  70. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  71. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  72. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  73. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  74. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  75. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  76. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  77. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  78. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  79. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  80. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  81. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  82. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  83. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  84. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  85. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  86. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  87. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  88. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  89. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  90. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  91. William IV 1765 – 1837
  92. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  93. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  94. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  95. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  96. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  97. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  98. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  99. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  100. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  101. George IV 1762 – 1830
  102. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  103. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  104. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  105. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  106. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  107. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  108. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  109. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  110. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  111. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  112. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  113. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  114. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  115. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  116. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  117. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  118. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  119. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  120. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  121. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  122. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  123. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  124. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  125. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  126. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  127. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  128. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  129. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  130. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  131. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  132. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  133. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  134. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  135. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  136. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  137. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  138. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  139. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  140. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  141. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  142. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  143. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  144. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  145. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  146. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  147. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  148. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  149. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  150. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721