Who Was Alive
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish chemist

Born 9 December 1742 · died 21 May 1786, aged 43
Also known as Karl Wilhelm Scheele, Carl Scheele

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Wilhelm Scheele?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 1742 – 1786
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born, George Washington was 10, Johann Sebastian Bach was 57, Voltaire was 48, Immanuel Kant was 18 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 30.

When Carl Wilhelm Scheele died, Napoleon was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 36, George Washington was 54, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 30 and Immanuel Kant was 62.

Born during Carl Wilhelm Scheele’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Alexander Pushkin was born about 13 years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele died, Lord Byron was born about 2 years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele died, Michael Faraday was born about 5 years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele died and Honoré de Balzac was born about 13 years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

296 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carl Wilhelm Scheele. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1764.

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  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. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  25. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  26. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  27. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  28. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  29. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  38. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  39. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  40. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  41. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  42. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  43. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  44. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  45. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  46. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  47. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  48. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  49. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  50. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  51. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  52. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  53. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  54. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  55. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  56. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  57. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  58. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  59. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  60. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  61. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  62. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  63. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  64. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  65. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  66. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  67. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  68. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  69. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  70. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  71. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  72. George III 1738 – 1820
  73. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  74. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  75. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  76. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  77. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  78. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  79. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  80. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  81. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  82. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  83. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  84. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  85. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  86. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  87. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  88. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  89. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  90. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  91. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  92. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  93. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  94. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  95. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  96. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  97. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  98. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  99. William IV 1765 – 1837
  100. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  101. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  102. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  103. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  104. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  105. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  106. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  107. George IV 1762 – 1830
  108. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  109. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  110. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  111. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  112. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  113. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  114. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  115. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  116. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  117. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  118. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  119. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  120. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  121. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  122. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  123. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  124. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  125. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  126. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  127. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  128. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  129. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  130. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  131. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  132. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  133. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  134. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  135. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  136. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  137. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  138. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  139. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  140. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  141. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  142. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  143. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  144. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  145. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  146. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778 – 1850
  147. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  148. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  149. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  150. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789