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Charles Messier
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Charles Messier

French astronomer

Born 26 June 1730 · died 12 April 1817, aged 86
Also known as Charles Joseph Messier, Messier

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Messier?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. Charles Messier, 1730 – 1817
  9. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  10. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  14. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  15. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  16. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  17. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  18. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  19. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  20. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  21. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  22. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  23. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  24. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898

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When Charles Messier was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 45, Voltaire was 35, Immanuel Kant was 6, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 17 and Adam Smith was 6 or 7.

When Charles Messier died, Abraham Lincoln was 8, Napoleon was 47, Charles Darwin was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 and Victor Hugo was 15.

Born during Charles Messier’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about a year after Charles Messier died, Isaac Newton died about 3 years before Charles Messier was born, Leo Tolstoy was born about 11 years after Charles Messier died and Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 4 years after Charles Messier died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

491 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles Messier. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1774.

  1. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  36. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  37. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  50. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  57. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  61. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  62. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  63. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  64. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  65. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  66. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  67. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  68. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  69. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  70. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  71. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  72. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  73. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  74. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  75. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  76. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  77. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  78. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  79. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  80. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  81. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  82. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  83. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  84. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  85. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  86. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  87. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  88. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  89. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  90. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  92. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  93. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  94. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  95. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  96. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  97. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  98. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  99. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  100. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  101. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  102. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  103. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  104. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  105. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  106. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  107. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  108. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  109. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  110. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  111. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  112. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  113. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  114. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  115. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  116. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  117. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  118. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  119. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  120. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  121. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  122. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  123. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  124. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  125. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  126. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  127. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  128. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  129. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  130. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  131. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  132. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  133. George III 1738 – 1820
  134. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  135. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  136. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  137. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  138. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  139. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  140. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  141. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  142. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  143. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  144. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  145. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  146. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  147. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  148. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  149. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  150. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804