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Frederick William III
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Frederick William III

King of Prussia

Born 3 August 1770 · died 7 June 1840, aged 69
Also known as Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm III., Frederick-William III

Who was alive at the same time as Frederick William III?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  11. Frederick William III, 1770 – 1840
  12. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  13. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  14. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  15. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  16. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  17. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  18. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  19. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  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 Frederick William III was born, Napoleon was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 20, George Washington was 38, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 14 and Voltaire was 75.

When Frederick William III died, Karl Marx was 22, Abraham Lincoln was 31, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 31 and Victor Hugo was 38.

Born during Frederick William III’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 13 years after Frederick William III died, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 4 years after Frederick William III died, Thomas Edison was born about 7 years after Frederick William III died and Oscar Wilde was born about 14 years after Frederick William III died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

623 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frederick William III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1805.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  25. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  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. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  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. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  58. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  59. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  60. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  61. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  62. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  63. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  64. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  65. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  66. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  67. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  68. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  69. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  70. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  71. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  72. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  73. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  74. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  75. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  76. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  77. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  78. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  79. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  80. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  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. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  98. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  99. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  100. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  101. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  102. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  103. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  104. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  105. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  106. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  107. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  108. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  109. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  110. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  111. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  112. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  113. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  114. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  115. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  116. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  117. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  118. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  119. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  120. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  121. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  122. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  123. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  124. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  125. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  126. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  127. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  128. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  129. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  130. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  131. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  132. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  133. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  134. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  135. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  136. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  137. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  138. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  139. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  140. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  141. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  142. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  143. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  144. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  145. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  146. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  147. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  148. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  149. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  150. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900