Who Was Alive

William III of England

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702

Born 14 November 1650 · died 8 March 1702 (Julian calendar), aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as William III of England?

  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. Diego Velázquez
  3. Oliver Cromwell
  4. Rembrandt
  5. John Milton
  6. Jean de La Fontaine
  7. Molière
  8. Blaise Pascal
  9. John Locke
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza
  11. Louis XIV of France
  12. Isaac Newton
  13. Matsuo Bashō
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  15. William III of England
  16. Daniel Defoe
  17. Jonathan Swift
  18. Peter the Great
  19. Antonio Vivaldi
  20. George Frideric Handel
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach
  22. Alexander Pope
  23. Montesquieu
  24. Voltaire
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When William III of England was born, Isaac Newton was 7, Molière was 28, John Locke was 18, Rembrandt was 44 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 4.

When William III of England died, Isaac Newton was 59, Johann Sebastian Bach was 16, Voltaire was 7, John Locke was 69 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 55.

Born during William III of England’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, George Frideric Handel, Montesquieu and Daniel Defoe.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died 8 years before William III of England was born, René Descartes died months before William III of England was born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 10 years after William III of England died and Benjamin Franklin was born 4 years after William III of England died.

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All 48 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  15. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  18. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  35. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  36. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  37. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  38. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  39. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  40. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  41. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  42. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  45. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  48. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745