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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

French mathematician and engineer

Born 21–22 May 1792 · died 19 September 1843, aged 51
Also known as Gustave Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, Gustave Gaspard de Coriolis

Who was alive at the same time as Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis?

  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. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  9. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  10. Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, 1792 – 1843
  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. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 68 and Thomas Jefferson was 49.

When Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis died, Karl Marx was 25, Abraham Lincoln was 34, Leo Tolstoy was 15, Charles Darwin was 34 and Victor Hugo was 41.

Born during Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about a year before Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was born, Vincent van Gogh was born about 10 years after Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis died, Voltaire died about 14 years before Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was born and Friedrich Nietzsche was born about a year after Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

608 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1818.

  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. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  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. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  37. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  41. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  42. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  52. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  53. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  54. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  55. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  56. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  57. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  58. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  59. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  60. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  61. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  62. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  63. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  64. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  65. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  68. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  69. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  70. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  71. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  72. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  73. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  74. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  75. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  76. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  77. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  78. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  79. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  80. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  81. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  82. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  83. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  84. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  85. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  86. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  87. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  88. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  89. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  90. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  91. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  92. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  93. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  94. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  95. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  96. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  97. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  98. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  99. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  100. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  101. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  102. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  103. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  104. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  105. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  106. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  107. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  108. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  109. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  110. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  111. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  112. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  113. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  114. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  115. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  116. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  117. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  118. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  119. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  120. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  121. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  122. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  123. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  124. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  125. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  126. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  127. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  128. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  129. William James 1842 – 1910
  130. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  131. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  132. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  133. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  134. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  135. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  136. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  137. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  138. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  139. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  140. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  141. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  142. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  143. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  144. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  145. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  146. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  147. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  148. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  149. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  150. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919