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Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams

Writer

Born 22 November 1744 · died 28 October 1818, aged 73
Also known as Abigail Smith

Who was alive at the same time as Abigail Adams?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  9. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  10. Abigail Adams, 1744 – 1818
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  14. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  15. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  16. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  17. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  18. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  19. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  20. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  21. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  22. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  23. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  24. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883

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When Abigail Adams was born, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 50, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 32.

When Abigail Adams died, Karl Marx was under a year old, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 9 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

Born during Abigail Adams’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 10 years after Abigail Adams died, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 3 years after Abigail Adams died, Louis Pasteur was born about 4 years after Abigail Adams died and Friedrich Engels was born about 2 years after Abigail Adams died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

488 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abigail Adams. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1781.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  50. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  57. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  61. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  62. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  63. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  64. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  65. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  66. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  67. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  68. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  69. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  70. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  71. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  72. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  73. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  74. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  75. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  76. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  77. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  78. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  79. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  80. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  81. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  82. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  83. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  84. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  85. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  86. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  87. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  88. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  89. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  90. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  92. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  93. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  94. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  95. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  96. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  97. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  98. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  99. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  100. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  101. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  102. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  103. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  104. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  105. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  106. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  107. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  108. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  109. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  110. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  111. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  112. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  113. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  114. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  115. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  116. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  117. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  118. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  119. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  120. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  121. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  122. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  123. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  124. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  125. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  126. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  127. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  128. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  129. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  130. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  131. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  132. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  133. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  134. George III 1738 – 1820
  135. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  136. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  137. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  138. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  139. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  140. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  141. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  142. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  143. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  144. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  145. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  146. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  147. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  148. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  149. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  150. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805