Who Was Alive

George III of Great Britain

King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820

Born 24 May 1738 (Julian calendar) · died 29 January 1820, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as George III of Great Britain?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. George III of Great Britain
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven
  14. Napoleon
  15. Lord Byron
  16. Alexander Pushkin
  17. Victor Hugo
  18. Hans Christian Andersen
  19. Edgar Allan Poe
  20. Abraham Lincoln
  21. Charles Darwin
  22. Charles Dickens
  23. Otto von Bismarck
  24. Karl Marx
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When George III of Great Britain was born, George Washington was 6, Johann Sebastian Bach was 53, Voltaire was 43, Immanuel Kant was 14 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 25.

When George III of Great Britain died, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 50, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 70.

Born during George III of Great Britain’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 11 years before George III of Great Britain was born, Leo Tolstoy was born 8 years after George III of Great Britain died, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born about a year after George III of Great Britain died and Louis Pasteur was born 2 years after George III of Great Britain died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  49. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  50. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  51. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  52. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  53. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  54. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  55. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  56. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  57. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  58. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  61. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  62. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  63. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  64. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  65. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  66. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  67. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  68. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  69. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  70. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  71. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  73. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  74. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  75. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  76. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  77. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  78. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  79. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  80. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  81. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  82. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  83. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  84. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  85. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  86. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  87. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  88. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  89. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  90. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  91. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  92. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  93. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  94. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  95. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  96. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  97. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  98. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  99. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  100. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  101. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  102. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  103. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  104. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  105. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  106. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  107. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  108. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  109. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  110. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  111. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  112. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  113. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  114. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  115. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  116. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  117. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  118. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  119. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  120. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  121. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  122. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  123. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  124. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  125. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  126. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  127. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  128. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  129. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  130. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  131. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  132. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  133. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  134. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  135. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  136. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  137. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  138. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  139. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  140. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  141. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  142. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  143. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  144. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  145. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  146. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  147. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  148. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  149. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  150. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780

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