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François Arago
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François Arago

French mathematician and physicist

Born 26 February 1786 · died 2 October 1853, aged 67
Also known as Francois Arago

Who was alive at the same time as François Arago?

  1. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  9. François Arago, 1786 – 1853
  10. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  21. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  23. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  24. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890

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When François Arago was born, Napoleon was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 36, George Washington was 54, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 30 and Immanuel Kant was 61.

When François Arago died, Karl Marx was 35, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 25, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

Born during François Arago’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died about 8 years before François Arago was born, Sigmund Freud was born about 3 years after François Arago died, Marie Curie was born about 14 years after François Arago died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 8 years after François Arago died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

715 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Arago. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1820.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  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. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  40. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  41. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  42. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  43. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  44. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  45. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  46. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  47. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  49. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  50. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  51. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  52. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  53. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  54. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  55. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  56. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  57. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  58. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  59. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  60. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  61. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  62. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  63. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  64. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  65. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  66. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  67. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  68. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  72. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  73. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  74. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  75. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  76. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  77. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  78. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  79. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  80. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  81. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  82. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  83. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  84. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  85. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  86. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  87. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  88. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  89. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  90. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  91. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  92. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  93. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  94. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  95. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  96. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  97. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  98. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  99. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  100. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  101. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  102. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  103. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  104. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  105. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  106. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  107. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  108. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  109. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  110. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  111. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  112. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  113. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  114. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  115. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  116. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  117. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  118. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  119. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  120. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  121. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  122. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  123. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  124. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  125. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  126. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  127. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  128. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  129. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  130. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  131. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  132. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  133. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  134. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  135. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  136. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  137. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  138. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  139. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  140. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  141. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  142. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  143. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  144. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  145. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  146. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  147. William James 1842 – 1910
  148. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  149. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  150. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907