Who Was Alive

Alexander Suvorov

Russian marshal

Born 13 November 1730 (Julian calendar) · died 6 May 1800 (Julian calendar), aged 69

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When Alexander Suvorov was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 45, Voltaire was 36, Immanuel Kant was 6, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 18 and Adam Smith was 7.

When Alexander Suvorov died, Napoleon was 30, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 50, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was under a year old and Thomas Jefferson was 57.

Born during Alexander Suvorov’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Pushkin, Thomas Jefferson and Lord Byron.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 3 years before Alexander Suvorov was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 9 years after Alexander Suvorov died, Charles Darwin was born 9 years after Alexander Suvorov died and Victor Hugo was born 2 years after Alexander Suvorov died.

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