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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Born 15 November 1708 · died 11 May 1778, aged 69
Also known as William Pitt Earl of Chatham, The Great Commoner, Pitt the Elder

Who was alive at the same time as William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  6. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  7. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  8. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  9. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1708 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  17. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was born, Isaac Newton was 65, Johann Sebastian Bach was 23, Voltaire was 13, Benjamin Franklin was 2 and Carl Linnaeus was 1.

When William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham died, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 46, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 and Voltaire was 83.

Born during William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born about 10 years after William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham died, John Locke died about 4 years before William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was born, Matsuo Bashō died about 14 years before William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was born and Michael Faraday was born about 13 years after William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

302 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1743.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  36. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  37. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  38. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  39. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  40. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  41. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  42. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  43. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  44. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  45. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  46. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  47. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  48. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  49. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  50. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  51. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  52. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  53. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  54. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  55. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  56. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  57. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  58. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  59. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  60. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  61. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  62. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  63. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  64. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  65. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  66. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  67. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  68. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  69. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  70. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  71. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  72. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  73. George III 1738 – 1820
  74. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  75. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  76. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  77. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  78. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  79. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  80. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  81. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  82. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  83. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  84. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  85. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  86. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  87. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  88. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  89. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  90. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  91. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  92. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  93. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  94. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  95. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  96. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  97. William IV 1765 – 1837
  98. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  99. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  100. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  101. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  102. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  103. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  104. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  105. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  106. George IV 1762 – 1830
  107. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  108. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  109. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  110. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  111. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  112. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  113. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  114. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  115. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  116. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  117. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  118. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  119. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  120. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  121. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  122. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  123. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  124. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  125. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  126. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  127. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  128. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  129. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  130. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  131. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  132. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  133. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  134. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  135. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  136. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  137. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  138. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  139. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  140. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  141. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  142. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  143. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  144. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  145. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  146. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  147. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  148. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  149. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  150. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850