Who Was Alive
Gaetano Donizetti
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Gaetano Donizetti

Italian composer

Born 29 November 1797 · died 8 April 1848, aged 50
Also known as Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Donizetti

Who was alive at the same time as Gaetano Donizetti?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Gaetano Donizetti, 1797 – 1848
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  13. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  14. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  17. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Gaetano Donizetti was born, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

When Gaetano Donizetti died, Karl Marx was 29, Abraham Lincoln was 39, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 39 and Victor Hugo was 46.

Born during Gaetano Donizetti’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 6 years before Gaetano Donizetti was born, Vincent van Gogh was born about 5 years after Gaetano Donizetti died, Sigmund Freud was born about 8 years after Gaetano Donizetti died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 13 years after Gaetano Donizetti died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

627 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gaetano Donizetti. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1823.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  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. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  40. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  49. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  50. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  51. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  52. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  57. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  58. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  59. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  60. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  61. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  62. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  63. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  64. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  65. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  66. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  67. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  68. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  69. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  70. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  71. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  72. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  73. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  74. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  75. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  76. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  79. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  80. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  81. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  82. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  83. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  84. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  85. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  86. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  87. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  88. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  89. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  90. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  91. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  92. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  93. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  94. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  95. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  96. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  97. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  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. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  109. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  110. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  111. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  112. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  113. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  114. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  115. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  116. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  117. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  118. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  119. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  120. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  121. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  122. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  123. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  124. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  125. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  126. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  127. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  128. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  129. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  130. William James 1842 – 1910
  131. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  132. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  133. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  134. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  135. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  136. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  137. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  138. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  139. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  140. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  141. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  142. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  143. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  144. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  145. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  146. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  147. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  148. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  149. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  150. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859