Who Was Alive

Were Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 56 years, from 1749 to 1806.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was 13 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56 when Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died, aged 70.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

French physicist

Born 14 June 1736 · died 23 August 1806, aged 70

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. George Washington
  2. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.