Who Was Alive

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

French physicist

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

Who was alive at the same time as Charles-Augustin de Coulomb?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. George Washington
  11. John Adams
  12. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven
  17. Napoleon
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  19. Jane Austen
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  21. Lord Byron
  22. Alexander Pushkin
  23. Victor Hugo
  24. Hans Christian Andersen
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When Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born, George Washington was 4, Johann Sebastian Bach was 51, Voltaire was 41, Immanuel Kant was 12 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 23.

When Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56, Victor Hugo was 4, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

Born during Charles-Augustin de Coulomb’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 12 years after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died, Isaac Newton died 9 years before Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 3 years after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died and Charles Darwin was born 3 years after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died.

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  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  11. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  17. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  21. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  22. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  23. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  27. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  30. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  31. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
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