Who Was Alive
William Hogarth
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William Hogarth

British painter and printmaker

Born 10 November 1697 · died 25–26 October 1764, aged 66
Also known as hogarth w., Guglielmo Hogarth, Horarth

Who was alive at the same time as William Hogarth?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  8. William Hogarth, 1697 – 1764
  9. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  10. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  11. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When William Hogarth was born, Isaac Newton was 54, Johann Sebastian Bach was 12, Voltaire was 2, John Locke was 65 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 51.

When William Hogarth died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 15, George Washington was 32, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 8, Voltaire was 69 and Immanuel Kant was 40.

Born during William Hogarth’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 5 years after William Hogarth died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 4 years after William Hogarth died, Jane Austen was born about 11 years after William Hogarth died and Matsuo Bashō died about 3 years before William Hogarth was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

253 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as William Hogarth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1731.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  20. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  21. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  25. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  26. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  27. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  28. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  29. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  30. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  31. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  32. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  33. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  34. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  35. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  36. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  37. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  38. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  39. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  40. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  41. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  43. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  44. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  45. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  46. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  47. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  48. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  49. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  50. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  51. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  52. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  53. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  54. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  55. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  56. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  57. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  58. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  59. George III 1738 – 1820
  60. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  61. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  62. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  63. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  64. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  65. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  66. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  67. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  68. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  69. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  70. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  71. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  72. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  73. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  74. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  75. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  76. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  77. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  78. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  79. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  80. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  81. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  82. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  83. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  84. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  85. George IV 1762 – 1830
  86. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  87. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  88. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  89. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  90. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  91. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  92. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  93. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  94. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  95. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  96. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  97. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  98. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  99. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  100. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  101. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  102. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  103. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  104. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  105. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  106. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  107. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  108. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  109. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  110. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  111. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  112. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  113. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  114. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  115. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  116. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  117. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  118. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  119. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  120. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  121. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  122. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  123. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  124. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  125. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  126. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  127. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  128. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  129. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  130. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  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. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  141. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  142. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  143. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  144. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  145. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  146. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  147. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  148. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  149. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  150. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826