Who Was Alive
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Au Ménestrel, Paris, 1865. Uploaded, stiched and restored by JLPC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Prussian composer

Born 5 September 1791 · died 2 May 1864, aged 72
Also known as Meyerbeer, Jakob Meyer Beer, Meyer Beer

Who was alive at the same time as Giacomo Meyerbeer?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  8. Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1791 – 1864
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Giacomo Meyerbeer was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When Giacomo Meyerbeer died, Karl Marx was 45, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

Born during Giacomo Meyerbeer’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 15 years after Giacomo Meyerbeer died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 6 years after Giacomo Meyerbeer died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 5 years after Giacomo Meyerbeer died and Joseph Stalin was born about 14 years after Giacomo Meyerbeer died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

834 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giacomo Meyerbeer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1828.

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  36. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  37. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  38. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  39. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  40. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  41. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  42. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  43. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  44. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  45. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  46. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  47. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  49. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  50. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  51. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  53. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  54. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  55. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  56. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  57. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  58. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  59. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  60. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  61. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  62. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  63. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  64. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  65. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  66. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  67. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  68. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  69. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  70. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  71. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  72. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  73. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  74. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  75. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  76. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  77. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  78. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  79. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  80. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  81. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  82. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  83. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  84. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  85. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  86. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  87. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  88. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  89. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  90. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  91. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  92. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  93. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  94. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  95. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  96. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  97. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  98. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  99. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  100. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  101. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  102. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  103. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  104. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  105. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  106. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  107. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  108. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  109. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  110. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  111. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  112. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  113. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  114. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  115. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  116. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  117. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  118. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  119. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  120. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  121. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  122. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  123. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  124. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  125. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  126. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  127. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  128. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  129. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  130. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  131. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  132. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  133. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  134. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  135. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  136. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  137. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  138. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  139. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  140. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  141. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  142. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  143. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  144. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  145. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  146. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  147. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  148. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  149. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  150. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891