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Caroline Herschel
Ölgemälde: Melchior Gommar Tieleman; Foto des gemeinfreien Gemäldes: unbekannt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Caroline Herschel

German astronomer

Born 16 March 1750 · died 9 January 1848, aged 97
Also known as C. Herschel, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Lucretia Herschel

Who was alive at the same time as Caroline Herschel?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Caroline Herschel, 1750 – 1848
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  13. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  14. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  15. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Caroline Herschel was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was under a year old, George Washington was 18, Johann Sebastian Bach was 64, Voltaire was 55 and Immanuel Kant was 25.

When Caroline Herschel died, Karl Marx was 29, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

Born during Caroline Herschel’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 5 years after Caroline Herschel died, Sigmund Freud was born about 8 years after Caroline Herschel died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 13 years after Caroline Herschel died and Anton Chekhov was born about 12 years after Caroline Herschel died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

725 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Caroline Herschel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1799.

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  28. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  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. 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. 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. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  66. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  67. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  68. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  69. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  70. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  71. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  72. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  73. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  74. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  75. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  76. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  77. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  78. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  79. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  80. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  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. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  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. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  93. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  94. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  95. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  96. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  97. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  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. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  122. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  123. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  124. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  125. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  126. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  127. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  128. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  129. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  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. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  138. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  139. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  140. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  141. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  142. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  143. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  144. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  145. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  146. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  147. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  148. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  149. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  150. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847