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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

French politician who served as President of the National Convention

Born 3 May 1748 · died 20 June 1836, aged 88
Also known as comte Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

Who was alive at the same time as Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, 1748 – 1836
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born, George Washington was 16, Johann Sebastian Bach was 63, Voltaire was 53, Immanuel Kant was 24 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 35.

When Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 34.

Born during Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 8 years after Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died, Thomas Edison was born about 11 years after Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died, Sarah Bernhardt was born about 8 years after Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born about 4 years after Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

624 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1792.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  20. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  26. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  27. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  28. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  29. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  40. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  41. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  42. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  43. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  44. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  45. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  46. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  47. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  48. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  49. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  50. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  51. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  52. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  53. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  54. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  55. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  56. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  57. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  58. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  59. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  60. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  61. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  62. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  63. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  64. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  65. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  66. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  67. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  68. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  72. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  73. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  74. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  75. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  76. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  77. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  78. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  79. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  80. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  81. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  82. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  83. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  84. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  85. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  86. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  87. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  88. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  89. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  90. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  91. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  92. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  93. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  94. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  95. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  96. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  97. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  98. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  99. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  100. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  101. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  102. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  103. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  104. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  105. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  106. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  107. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  108. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  109. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  110. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  111. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  112. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  113. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  114. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  115. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  116. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  117. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  118. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  119. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  120. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  121. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  122. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  123. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  124. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  125. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  126. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  127. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  128. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  129. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  130. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  131. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  132. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  133. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  134. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  135. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  136. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  137. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  138. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  139. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  140. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  141. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  142. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  143. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  144. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  145. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  146. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  147. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  148. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  149. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  150. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883