Who Was Alive

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist

Born 30 April 1777 · died 23 February 1855, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Friedrich Gauss?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  11. Alexander Pushkin
  12. Victor Hugo
  13. Hans Christian Andersen
  14. Edgar Allan Poe
  15. Abraham Lincoln
  16. Charles Darwin
  17. Charles Dickens
  18. Karl Marx
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Leo Tolstoy
  21. Mark Twain
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche
  23. Thomas Edison
  24. Vincent van Gogh
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When Carl Friedrich Gauss was born, Napoleon was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 27, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 and Voltaire was 82.

When Carl Friedrich Gauss died, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 26, Charles Darwin was 46 and Victor Hugo was 52.

Born during Carl Friedrich Gauss’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Mahatma Gandhi was born 14 years after Carl Friedrich Gauss died, Sigmund Freud was born about a year after Carl Friedrich Gauss died, Marie Curie was born 12 years after Carl Friedrich Gauss died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 6 years after Carl Friedrich Gauss died.

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All 333 contemporaries we track

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  29. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  40. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  41. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  42. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  43. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  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. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  57. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  58. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  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 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  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. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  82. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  83. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  84. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  85. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  88. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  89. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  90. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  91. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  92. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  93. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  94. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  95. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  96. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  97. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  98. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  99. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  100. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  101. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  102. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  103. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  104. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  105. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  106. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  107. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  108. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  109. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  110. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  111. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  112. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  113. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  114. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  115. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  116. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  117. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  118. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  119. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  120. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  121. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  122. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  123. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  124. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  125. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  126. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  127. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  128. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  129. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  130. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  131. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  132. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  133. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  134. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  135. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  136. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  137. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  138. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  139. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  140. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  141. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  142. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  143. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  144. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  145. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  146. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  147. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  148. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  149. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
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