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Gavrila Derzhavin
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Gavrila Derzhavin

Russian poet

Born 3 July 1743 (Julian calendar) · died 8 July 1816 (Julian calendar), aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Gavrila Derzhavin?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  9. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  10. Gavrila Derzhavin, 1743 – 1816
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  14. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  15. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  16. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  17. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  18. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  19. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  20. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  21. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  22. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  23. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  24. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898

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When Gavrila Derzhavin was born, George Washington was 11, Johann Sebastian Bach was 58, Voltaire was 48, Immanuel Kant was 19 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 31.

When Gavrila Derzhavin died, Abraham Lincoln was 7, Napoleon was 46, Charles Darwin was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66 and Victor Hugo was 14.

Born during Gavrila Derzhavin’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 2 years after Gavrila Derzhavin died, Leo Tolstoy was born about 12 years after Gavrila Derzhavin died, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 5 years after Gavrila Derzhavin died and Louis Pasteur was born about 6 years after Gavrila Derzhavin died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

476 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gavrila Derzhavin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1780.

  1. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  36. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  37. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  44. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  45. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  46. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  47. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  48. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  49. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  50. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  51. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  52. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  53. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  54. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  55. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  56. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  57. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  58. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  59. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  60. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  61. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  62. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  63. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  64. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  65. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  66. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  67. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  68. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  69. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  70. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  71. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  72. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  73. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  74. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  75. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  76. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  77. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  78. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  79. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  80. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  81. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  82. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  83. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  84. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  85. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  86. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  87. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  88. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  89. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  90. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  91. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  92. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  93. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  94. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  95. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  96. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  97. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  98. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  99. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  100. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  101. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  102. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  103. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  104. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  105. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  106. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  107. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  108. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  109. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  110. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  111. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  113. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  114. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  115. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  116. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  117. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  118. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  119. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  120. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  121. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  122. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  123. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  124. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  125. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  126. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  127. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  128. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  129. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  130. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  131. George III 1738 – 1820
  132. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  133. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  134. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  135. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  136. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  137. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  138. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  139. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  140. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  141. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  142. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  143. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  144. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  145. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  146. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  147. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  148. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  149. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  150. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852