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François Guizot
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François Guizot

French historian

Born 4 October 1787 · died 12 September 1874, aged 86
Also known as François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot

Who was alive at the same time as François Guizot?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. François Guizot, 1787 – 1874
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  11. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  12. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  16. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  19. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  21. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  23. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  24. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924

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When François Guizot was born, Napoleon was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 38, George Washington was 55, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 31 and Immanuel Kant was 63.

When François Guizot died, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 65.

Born during François Guizot’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 15 years after François Guizot died, Albert Einstein was born about 5 years after François Guizot died, Joseph Stalin was born about 4 years after François Guizot died and Pablo Picasso was born about 7 years after François Guizot died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

991 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Guizot. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1831.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  27. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  28. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  39. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  40. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  41. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  42. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  43. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  44. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  45. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  46. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  47. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  48. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  49. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  50. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  51. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  52. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  53. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  54. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  55. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  56. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  57. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  59. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  60. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  61. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  62. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  63. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  64. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  66. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  67. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  68. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  69. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  70. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  71. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  72. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  73. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  74. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  75. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  76. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  77. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  78. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  79. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  80. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  81. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  82. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  83. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  84. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  85. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  86. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  87. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  88. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  89. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  90. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  91. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  92. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  93. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  94. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  95. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  96. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  97. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  98. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  99. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  100. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  101. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  102. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  103. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  104. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  105. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  106. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  107. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  108. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  109. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  110. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  111. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  112. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  113. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  114. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  115. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  116. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  117. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  118. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  119. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  120. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  121. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  122. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  123. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  124. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  125. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  126. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  127. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  128. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  129. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  130. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  131. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  132. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  133. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  140. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  141. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  142. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  143. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  144. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  145. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  146. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  147. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  148. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  149. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  150. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918