Who Was Alive

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

French diplomat

Born 2 February 1754 · died 17 May 1839, aged 85

Who was alive at the same time as Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord?

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When Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 4, George Washington was 21, Voltaire was 59, Immanuel Kant was 29 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 41.

When Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord died, Karl Marx was 21, Abraham Lincoln was 30, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 30 and Victor Hugo was 37.

Born during Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord’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 14 years after Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 4 years before Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 5 years after Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord died and Thomas Edison was born 8 years after Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord died.

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  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
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  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
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  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
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  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
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  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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