Famous Lives
Who was alive at the same time: history's best known leaders, religious figures, explorers, thinkers, scientists, writers, composers and painters, each from birth to death in their field's color — never more than 12 at once.
Events 457 totals
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Jul
1
1646
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1646–1716
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Nov
14
1650
William III of England · 1650–1702
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Jun
9
1661
Feodor III of Russia · 1661–1682
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Nov
30
1667
Jonathan Swift · 1667–1745
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Jun
9
1672
Peter the Great · 1672–1725
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Mar
4
1678
Antonio Vivaldi · 1678–1741
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Mar
31
1685
Johann Sebastian Bach · 1685–1750
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Jan
18
1689
Montesquieu · 1689–1755
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Feb
20
1694
Voltaire · 1694–1778
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Jan
17
1706
Benjamin Franklin · 1706–1790
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May
23
1707
Carl Linnaeus · 1707–1778
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Jun
28
1712
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1712–1778
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Jun
5
1723
Adam Smith · 1723–1790
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Apr
22
1724
Immanuel Kant · 1724–1804
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Feb
21
1728
Peter III of Russia · 1728–1762
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Feb
22
1732
George Washington · 1732–1799
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Apr
13
1743
Thomas Jefferson · 1743–1826
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Aug
22
1749
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1749–1832
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Jan
27
1756
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1756–1791
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Aug
15
1769
Napoleon · 1769–1821
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Dec
16
1770
Ludwig van Beethoven · 1770–1827
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Jan
22
1788
Lord Byron · 1788–1824
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Sep
22
1791
Michael Faraday · 1791–1867
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Oct
31
1795
John Keats · 1795–1821
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Feb
26
1802
Victor Hugo · 1802–1885
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