Who Was Alive

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer

Born 18 September 1709 · died 13 December 1784, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel Johnson?

  1. Louis XIV of France
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach
  5. Voltaire
  6. Benjamin Franklin
  7. Leonhard Euler
  8. Carl Linnaeus
  9. Samuel Johnson
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  11. Adam Smith
  12. Immanuel Kant
  13. James Cook
  14. George Washington
  15. John Adams
  16. Thomas Jefferson
  17. Francisco Goya
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven
  21. Napoleon
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  23. Jane Austen
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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When Samuel Johnson was born, Isaac Newton was 66, Johann Sebastian Bach was 24, Voltaire was 14, Benjamin Franklin was 3 and Carl Linnaeus was 2.

When Samuel Johnson died, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 52, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 28 and Immanuel Kant was 60.

Born during Samuel Johnson’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Alexander Pushkin was born 15 years after Samuel Johnson died, Lord Byron was born 4 years after Samuel Johnson died, John Locke died 5 years before Samuel Johnson was born and Matsuo Bashō died 15 years before Samuel Johnson was born.

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All 128 contemporaries we track

  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  43. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  44. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  45. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  46. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  47. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  48. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  49. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  50. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  51. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  52. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  53. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  54. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  55. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  56. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  58. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  59. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  60. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  61. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  62. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  63. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  64. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  65. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  66. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  67. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  68. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  69. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  70. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  71. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  72. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  73. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  74. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  75. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  76. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  77. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  78. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  79. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  80. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  81. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  82. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  83. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  84. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  85. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  86. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  87. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  88. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  89. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  90. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  91. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  92. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  93. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  94. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  95. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  96. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  97. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  98. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  99. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  100. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  101. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  102. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  103. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  104. William IV 1765 – 1837
  105. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  106. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  107. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  108. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  109. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  110. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  111. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  112. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  113. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  114. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  115. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  116. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  117. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  118. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  119. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  120. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  121. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  122. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  123. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  124. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  125. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  126. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  127. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  128. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817