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Vitus Bering
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Vitus Bering

Danish-born explorer

Born 5 August 1681 · died 8 December 1741 (Julian calendar), aged 60
Also known as Ivan Bering, Ivan Ivanovich Bering, Capt. Bering

Who was alive at the same time as Vitus Bering?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  7. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  8. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  9. Vitus Bering, 1681 – 1741
  10. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  12. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  13. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  14. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  15. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  16. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  17. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  20. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  21. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  22. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  23. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  24. James Watt, 1736 – 1819

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When Vitus Bering was born, Isaac Newton was 38, John Locke was 48, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 35, Matsuo Bashō was 36 or 37 and Louis XIV was 42.

When Vitus Bering died, George Washington was 9, Johann Sebastian Bach was 56, Voltaire was 47, Immanuel Kant was 17 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 29.

Born during Vitus Bering’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 8 years after Vitus Bering died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 15 years after Vitus Bering died, Molière died about 8 years before Vitus Bering was born and Thomas Jefferson was born about 2 years after Vitus Bering died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

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

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  28. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  29. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  30. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  31. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  32. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  35. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  38. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  39. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  40. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. George III 1738 – 1820
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  46. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  47. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  48. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  49. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  50. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  51. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  54. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  55. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  56. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  57. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  58. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  61. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  62. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  63. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  64. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  65. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  66. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  67. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  68. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  69. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  70. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  71. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  72. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  73. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  74. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  75. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  76. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  79. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  80. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  81. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  82. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  83. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  84. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  85. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  86. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  87. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  88. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  89. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  90. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  91. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  92. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  93. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  94. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  95. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  96. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  97. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  98. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  99. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  100. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  101. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  102. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  103. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  104. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  105. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  106. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  107. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  108. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  109. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  110. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  111. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  112. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  113. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  114. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  115. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  116. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  117. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  118. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  119. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  120. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  121. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  122. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  123. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  124. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  125. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  126. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  127. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  128. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  129. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  130. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  131. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  132. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  133. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  134. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  135. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  136. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  137. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  138. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  139. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  140. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  141. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  142. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  143. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  144. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  145. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  146. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  147. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  148. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  149. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  150. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764