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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician

Born 21 August 1789 · died 23 May 1857, aged 67
Also known as Augustin Louis Cauchy, Augustin Cauchy, Cauchy

Who was alive at the same time as Augustin-Louis Cauchy?

  1. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  9. Augustin-Louis Cauchy, 1789 – 1857
  10. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  11. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  12. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  13. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  14. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  15. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  16. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  17. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  19. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  20. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  22. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  23. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  24. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939

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When Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born, Napoleon was 20, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 39, George Washington was 57, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 33 and Immanuel Kant was 65.

When Augustin-Louis Cauchy died, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 55.

Born during Augustin-Louis Cauchy’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 13 years after Augustin-Louis Cauchy died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 12 years after Augustin-Louis Cauchy died, Voltaire died about 11 years before Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born and Marie Curie was born about 10 years after Augustin-Louis Cauchy died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

737 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Augustin-Louis Cauchy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1823.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  41. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  42. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  43. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  44. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  45. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  46. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  47. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  49. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  60. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  61. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  62. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  63. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  64. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  65. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  66. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  67. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  68. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  69. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  70. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  80. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  81. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  82. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  85. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  86. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  87. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  88. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  89. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  90. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  91. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  92. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  93. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  94. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  95. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  96. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  97. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  98. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  99. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  100. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  101. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  102. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  103. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  104. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  105. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  106. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  107. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  108. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  109. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  110. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  111. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  112. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  113. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  114. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  115. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  116. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  117. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  118. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  119. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  120. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  121. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  122. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  123. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  124. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  125. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  126. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  127. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  128. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  129. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  130. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  131. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  132. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  133. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  134. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  135. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  136. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  137. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  138. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  139. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  140. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  141. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  142. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  143. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  144. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  145. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  146. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  147. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  148. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  149. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  150. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796