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Tomaso Albinoni
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Tomaso Albinoni

Venetian composer and violinist

Born 8 June 1671 · died 17 January 1751, aged 79
Also known as Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

Who was alive at the same time as Tomaso Albinoni?

  1. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  2. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  3. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  4. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  5. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  6. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  8. Tomaso Albinoni, 1671 – 1751
  9. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  10. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  12. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  13. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  14. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  15. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  17. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  18. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  19. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  20. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  21. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  22. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  23. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  24. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832

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When Tomaso Albinoni was born, Isaac Newton was 28, Molière was 49, John Locke was 38, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 24 and Matsuo Bashō was 26 or 27.

When Tomaso Albinoni died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 1, George Washington was 18, Voltaire was 56, Immanuel Kant was 26 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 38.

Born during Tomaso Albinoni’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 5 years after Tomaso Albinoni died, Rembrandt died about 2 years before Tomaso Albinoni was born, Blaise Pascal died about 9 years before Tomaso Albinoni was born and Friedrich Schiller was born about 8 years after Tomaso Albinoni died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

248 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tomaso Albinoni. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1711.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  6. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  8. Molière 1622 – 1673
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  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. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  39. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  40. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  41. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  42. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  43. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  44. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  45. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  46. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  47. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  49. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  50. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  51. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  52. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  53. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  54. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  55. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  56. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  57. George III 1738 – 1820
  58. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  59. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  60. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  61. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  62. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  63. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  64. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  65. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  66. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  67. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  68. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  69. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  70. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  71. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  72. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  73. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  74. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  75. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  76. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  77. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  78. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  79. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  80. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  81. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  82. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  83. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  84. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  85. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  86. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  87. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  88. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  89. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  90. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  91. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  92. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  93. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  94. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  95. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  96. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  97. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  98. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  99. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  100. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  101. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  102. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  103. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  104. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  105. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  106. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  107. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  108. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  109. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  110. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  111. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  112. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  113. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  114. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  115. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  116. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  117. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  118. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  119. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  120. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  121. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  122. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  123. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  124. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  125. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  126. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  127. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  128. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  129. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  130. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  131. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  132. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  133. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  134. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  135. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  136. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  137. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  138. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  139. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  140. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  141. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  142. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  143. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  144. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  145. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  146. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  147. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  148. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  149. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  150. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826