Who Was Alive
Ferdinand VII
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Ferdinand VII

Monarch of Spain

Born 14 October 1784 · died 29 September 1833, aged 48
Also known as Ferdinand VII of Spain, Ferdinand the Desired, The Felon King

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand VII?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Ferdinand VII, 1784 – 1833
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Ferdinand VII was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 52, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 28 and Immanuel Kant was 60.

When Ferdinand VII died, Karl Marx was 15, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 31.

Born during Ferdinand VII’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died about 6 years before Ferdinand VII was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 11 years after Ferdinand VII died, Thomas Edison was born about 14 years after Ferdinand VII died and Mark Twain was born about 2 years after Ferdinand VII died.

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Where Ferdinand VII’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

543 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ferdinand VII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1809.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  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. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  41. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  42. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  45. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  49. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  50. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  51. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  52. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  53. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  54. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  55. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  56. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  57. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  58. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  59. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  60. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  61. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  62. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  63. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  64. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  65. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  66. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  67. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  68. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  69. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  70. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  71. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  72. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  73. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  74. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  75. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  76. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  77. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  78. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  79. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  80. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  81. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  82. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  83. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  84. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  85. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  86. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  87. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  88. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  89. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  90. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  91. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  92. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  93. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  94. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  95. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  96. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  97. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  98. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  99. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  100. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  101. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  102. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  103. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  104. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  105. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  106. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  107. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  108. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  109. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  110. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  111. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  112. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  113. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  114. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  115. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  116. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  117. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  118. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  119. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  120. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  121. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  122. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  123. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  124. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  125. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  126. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  127. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  128. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  129. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  130. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  131. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  132. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  133. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  134. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  135. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  136. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  137. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  138. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  139. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  140. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  141. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  142. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  143. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  144. Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
  145. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  146. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  147. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  148. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  149. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  150. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859