Who Was Alive

George Washington

Founding Father and first U.S. president

Born 22 February 1732 · died 14 December 1799, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as George Washington?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. George Washington
  11. John Adams
  12. Thomas Jefferson
  13. Francisco Goya
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven
  18. Napoleon
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Michael Faraday
  24. Alexander Pushkin
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When George Washington was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 46, Voltaire was 37, Immanuel Kant was 7, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 19 and Adam Smith was 8.

When George Washington died, Napoleon was 30, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 50, Immanuel Kant was 75, Alexander Pushkin was under a year old and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

Born during George Washington’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Pushkin, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 5 years before George Washington was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 10 years after George Washington died, Charles Darwin was born 10 years after George Washington died and Victor Hugo was born 3 years after George Washington died.

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All 151 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  30. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  31. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  32. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  33. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  34. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  35. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  38. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  39. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  40. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  41. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  42. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  43. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  44. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  47. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  48. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  49. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  50. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  51. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  52. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  53. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  54. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  55. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  56. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  57. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  58. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  59. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  60. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  61. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  62. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  63. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  64. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  65. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  66. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  67. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  68. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  69. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  70. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  71. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  72. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  73. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  74. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  75. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  76. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  77. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  78. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  79. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  80. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  81. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  82. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  83. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  84. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  85. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  86. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  87. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  88. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  89. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  90. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  91. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  92. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  93. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  94. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  95. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  96. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  97. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  98. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  99. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  100. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  101. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  102. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  103. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  104. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  105. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  106. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  107. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  108. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  109. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  110. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  111. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  112. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  113. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  114. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  115. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  116. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  117. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  118. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  119. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  120. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  121. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  122. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  123. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  124. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  125. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  126. William IV 1765 – 1837
  127. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  128. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  129. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  130. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  131. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  132. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  133. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  134. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  135. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  136. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  137. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  138. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  139. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  140. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  141. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  142. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  143. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  144. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  145. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  146. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  147. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  148. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  149. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  150. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810

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