The people named below were born around the same time as William in the years 1757-79. Most of them lived in the lands where he lived or had property: England, France, Ireland and the United States of America. Each name has a link to further information (lord Leicester has two links). The list follows the sequence of deaths.
- Ottobah Cugoano around 1757-1791 or later
- Charlotte Corday 1768-1793
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
- lord Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798
- Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798
- Mary Robinson 1757-1800
- Horatio viscount Nelson 1758-1805
- Georgiana duchess of Devonshire 1757-1806
Georgiana duchess of Devonshire (died 1806)
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines (emperor of Haiti from 1804) 1758-1806
- Tecumseh 1768-1813
- empress Joséphine 1763-1814
- Emma lady Hamilton 1765-1815
- Robert Fulton 1765-1815
- Dorothea Jordan 1761-1816
- Germaine de Staël 1766-1817
- Jane Austen 1775-1817
- Elizabeth Billington 1765-1818
Antoine Reicha (died 1836)
- Napoléon Bonaparte (emperor of the French 1804-14/15) 1769-1821
- Caroline queen of the United Kingdom (princess of Wales from 1795) 1768-1821
- Ann Radcliffe 1764-1823
- Deborah Gannett 1760-1827
- William Blake 1757-1827
- Thomas Addis Emmet 1764-1827
- Helen Maria Williams 1759-1827
- Claire duchesse de Duras 1777-1828
- Edward Onslow 1758-1829
Percy Jocelyn (died 1843)
- Benjamin Constant 1767-1830
- Elizabeth Heyrick 1769-1831
- sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
- Michael Hogan 1766-1833
- sir Francis Buller Yarde Buller 1767-1833
- Marie-Joseph marquis de La Fayette 1757-1834
- Robert Wedderburn 1762-1835
- William Courtenay earl of Devon 1768-1835
- William Cobbett 1766-1835
- Antoine Reicha (Antonín Rejcha) 1770-1836
Juliette Récamier (died 1849)
- Maria Cosway 1760-1838
- lady Hester Stanhope 1776-1839
- Richard earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764-1839
- George Brummell 1778-1840
- Eliza Fenwick 1766-1840
- Luigi Cherubini 1760-1842
- Percy Jocelyn (bishop of Clogher 1820-22) 1764-1843
- William Beckford 1760-1844
- Elizabeth lady Holland 1771-1845
Marie-Thérèse duchesse d’ Angoulême (died 1851)
- Daniel O’Connell 1775-1847
- Mary Lamb 1764-1847
- François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768-1848
- Juliette Récamier 1777-1849
- Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849
- Joanna Baillie 1762-1851
- Marie-Thérèse duchesse d’ Angoulême 1778-1851
- Thomas Moore 1779-1852
- Mary Ann Clarke 1776-1852
George Bridgetower (died 1860)
- Arthur duke of Wellington 1769-1852
- John Vanderlyn 1775-1852
- Mary Berry 1763-1852
- Amelia Opie 1769-1853
- George marquess Townshend (lord Leicester from 1807) 1778-1855
- Theresa Villiers 1775-1856
- Hester Maria Elphinstone viscountess Keith 1764-1857
- George Bridgetower 1778-1860
- Frances Trollope 1779-1863
Theresa Villiers (died 1856) as a child with her brother John Parker
William and his sisters were born in the years from 1763 to 1781 which made them close contemporaries of the children of queen Charlotte and king George III: six daughters and nine sons born from 1762 to 1783.
Images (from the top)
- George Cruikshank: Such a pair, 1820, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_green_bags.jpg. A caricature of queen Caroline (died 1821) and her husband king George IV.
- Joshua Reynolds: Duchess of Devonshire with her daughter, https://www.wikiart.org/en/joshua-reynolds/georgiana-duchess-of-devonshire-with-her-infant-daughter-lady-georgiana-cavendish.
- J. Vandenberg (lithographer); Thierry frères, Paris (publisher): Antoine Reicha on his death bed. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki /File:Anton_Reicha_02.jpg
- George Cruikshank: The Arse Bishop Josclin & a Soldier, 1822. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Percy_Jocelyn_Bishop_of_Clogher_by_Cruikshank.jpg
- Jacques-Louis David: Madame Récamier. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David._Madame_Récamier.jpg
- Antoine-Jean Gros: Embarquement de la duchesse d’Angoulême à Pauillac [The duchess of Angoulême embarking at Pauillac], https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine-Jean_Gros_004.jpg
- Henry Edridge: George Bridgetower, 1790, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Bridgetower_by_Henry_Edridge,_1790.JPG
- Joshua Reynolds: John and Theresa Parker as children (detail). (Theresa married George Villiers.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John%26TheresaParkerAsChildrenByJoshuaReynolds.jpg
Page history
- 2018 June 4: first published online.
- 2020 April 1: reviewed; no changes.
- 2020 June 1: rotation of images started.
- 2023 April 7: images refreshed.
William Courtenay (1768-1835) 
