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Stanisław August Poniatowski
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Stanisław August Poniatowski

King of Poland

Born 17 January 1732 · died 12 February 1798, aged 66
Also known as Stanisław II August Poniatowski, Stanislaus Augustus of Poland

Who was alive at the same time as Stanisław August Poniatowski?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. Stanisław August Poniatowski, 1732 – 1798
  11. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  12. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Stanisław August Poniatowski was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 46, Voltaire was 37, Immanuel Kant was 7, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 19 and Adam Smith was 8.

When Stanisław August Poniatowski died, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

Born during Stanisław August Poniatowski’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 5 years before Stanisław August Poniatowski was born, Abraham Lincoln was born about 11 years after Stanisław August Poniatowski died, Charles Darwin was born about 11 years after Stanisław August Poniatowski died and Victor Hugo was born about 4 years after Stanisław August Poniatowski died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

367 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Stanisław August Poniatowski. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1765.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  34. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  42. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  43. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  44. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  47. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  48. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  49. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  50. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  51. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  52. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  53. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  54. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  55. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  56. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  57. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  58. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  59. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  60. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  61. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  62. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  63. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  64. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  65. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  66. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  67. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  68. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  69. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  70. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  71. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  72. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  73. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  74. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  75. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  76. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  77. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  78. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  79. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  80. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  81. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  82. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  83. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  84. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  85. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  86. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  87. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  88. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  89. George III 1738 – 1820
  90. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  91. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  92. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  93. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  94. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  95. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  96. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  97. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  98. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  99. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  100. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  101. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  102. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  103. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  104. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  105. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  106. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  107. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  108. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  109. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  110. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  111. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  112. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  113. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  114. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  115. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  116. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  117. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  118. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  119. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  120. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  121. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  122. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  123. William IV 1765 – 1837
  124. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  125. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  126. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  127. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  128. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  129. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  130. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  131. George IV 1762 – 1830
  132. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  133. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  134. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  135. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  136. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  137. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  138. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  139. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  140. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  141. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  142. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  143. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  144. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  145. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  146. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  147. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  148. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  149. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  150. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830