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Prince Eugene of Savoy
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Prince Eugene of Savoy

Military officer

Born 18 October 1663 · died 21 April 1736, aged 72
Also known as Eugene of Savoy

Who was alive at the same time as Prince Eugene of Savoy?

  1. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  2. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  3. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  4. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  5. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  6. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  7. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  9. Prince Eugene of Savoy, 1663 – 1736
  10. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  11. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  12. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  14. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  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 Prince Eugene of Savoy was born, Isaac Newton was 20, Molière was 41, John Locke was 31, Rembrandt was 57 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 17.

When Prince Eugene of Savoy died, George Washington was 4, Johann Sebastian Bach was 51, Voltaire was 41, Immanuel Kant was 11 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 23.

Born during Prince Eugene of Savoy’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 13 years after Prince Eugene of Savoy died, René Descartes died about 13 years before Prince Eugene of Savoy was born, Thomas Jefferson was born about 7 years after Prince Eugene of Savoy died and Blaise Pascal died about a year before Prince Eugene of Savoy was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

213 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Prince Eugene of Savoy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1700.

  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  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. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  23. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  24. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  25. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  26. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  27. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  28. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  29. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  30. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  31. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  32. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  33. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  34. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  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. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  45. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  46. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  47. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  48. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  49. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  50. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  51. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  52. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  53. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  54. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  55. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  56. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  57. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  58. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  59. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  60. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  61. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  62. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  63. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  64. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  65. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  66. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  67. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  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. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  75. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  76. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  77. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  78. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  79. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  80. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  81. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  82. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  83. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  84. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  85. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  86. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  87. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  88. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  89. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  90. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  91. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  92. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  93. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  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. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  103. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  104. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  105. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  106. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  107. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  108. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  109. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  110. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  111. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  112. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  113. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  114. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  115. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  116. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  117. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  118. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  119. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  120. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  121. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  122. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  123. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  124. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  125. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  126. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  127. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  128. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  129. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  130. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  131. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  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. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  144. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  145. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  146. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  147. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  148. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  149. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  150. Shivaji 1627 – 1680