Who Was Alive

Edmund Burke

Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher

Born 12 January 1729 · died 9 July 1797, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Edmund Burke?

  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. Edmund Burke
  11. George Washington
  12. John Adams
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Friedrich Schiller
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Edmund Burke was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 43, Voltaire was 34, Immanuel Kant was 4, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 16 and Adam Smith was 5.

When Edmund Burke died, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

Born during Edmund Burke’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 2 years before Edmund Burke was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 12 years after Edmund Burke died, Charles Darwin was born 12 years after Edmund Burke died and Victor Hugo was born 5 years after Edmund Burke died.

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  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  43. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  44. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  45. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  46. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  47. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  48. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  49. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  50. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  51. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  52. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  53. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  54. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  55. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  56. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  57. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  58. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  59. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  60. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  61. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  62. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  63. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  64. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  65. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  66. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  67. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  68. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  69. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  70. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  71. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  72. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  73. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  74. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  75. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  76. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  77. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  78. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  79. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  80. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  81. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  82. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  83. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  84. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  85. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  86. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  87. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  88. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  89. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  90. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  91. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  92. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  93. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  94. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  95. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  96. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  97. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  98. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  99. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  100. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  101. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  102. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  103. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  104. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  105. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  106. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  107. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  108. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
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  110. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  111. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  112. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  113. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  114. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  115. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  116. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  117. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  118. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  119. William IV 1765 – 1837
  120. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  121. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  122. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  123. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  124. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  125. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  126. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  127. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  128. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  129. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  130. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  131. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  132. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  133. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  134. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  135. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  136. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  137. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  138. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  139. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  140. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  141. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  142. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  143. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  144. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817