Who Was Alive
André Chénier
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André Chénier

French poet

Born 30 October 1762 · died 25 July 1794, aged 31
Also known as Andre Chenier

Who was alive at the same time as André Chénier?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  9. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  10. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  11. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  12. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  15. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  16. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  17. André Chénier, 1762 – 1794
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When André Chénier was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 13, George Washington was 30, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 6, Voltaire was 67 and Immanuel Kant was 38.

When André Chénier died, Napoleon was 24, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44, George Washington was 62, Immanuel Kant was 70 and Thomas Jefferson was 51.

Born during André Chénier’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Michael Faraday and Simón Bolívar.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 15 years after André Chénier died, Charles Darwin was born about 15 years after André Chénier died, Victor Hugo was born about 8 years after André Chénier died and Johann Sebastian Bach died about 12 years before André Chénier was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

303 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as André Chénier. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1778.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  31. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  32. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  33. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  34. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  35. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  36. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  37. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  38. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  39. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  40. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  41. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  42. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  43. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  44. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  45. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  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. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  52. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  53. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  55. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  56. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  57. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  58. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  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. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  68. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  69. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  70. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  71. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  72. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  73. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  74. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  75. George III 1738 – 1820
  76. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  77. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  78. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  79. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  80. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  81. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  82. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  83. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  84. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  85. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  86. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  87. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  88. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  89. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  90. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  91. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  92. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  93. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  94. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  95. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  96. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  97. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  98. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  99. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  100. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  101. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  102. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  103. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  104. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  105. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  106. William IV 1765 – 1837
  107. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  108. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  109. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  110. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  111. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  112. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  113. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  114. George IV 1762 – 1830
  115. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  116. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  117. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  118. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  119. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  120. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  121. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  122. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  123. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  124. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  125. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  126. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  127. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  128. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  129. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  130. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  131. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  132. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  133. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  134. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  135. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  136. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  137. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  138. John Herschel 1792 – 1871
  139. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  140. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  141. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  142. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  143. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  144. Jean-François Champollion 1790 – 1832
  145. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  146. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  147. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  148. Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789 – 1857
  149. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  150. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806