Who Was Alive

Carlo Goldoni

Italian playwright

Born 25 February 1707 · died 6 February 1793, aged 85

Who was alive at the same time as Carlo Goldoni?

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When Carlo Goldoni was born, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 21, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

When Carlo Goldoni died, Napoleon was 23, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 43, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 68 and Thomas Jefferson was 49.

Born during Carlo Goldoni’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born 9 years after Carlo Goldoni died, Alexander Pushkin was born 6 years after Carlo Goldoni died, Hans Christian Andersen was born 12 years after Carlo Goldoni died and John Locke died 3 years before Carlo Goldoni was born.

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  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  28. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  29. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  30. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  31. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  32. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  33. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
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  35. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
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  60. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
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  63. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
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