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Heinrich von Kleist
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Heinrich von Kleist

German poet and playwright

Born 18 October 1777 · died 21 November 1811, aged 34
Also known as Genrikh Kleĭst, H. V. Kleist, Hainrikh fun Ḳlaisṭ

Who was alive at the same time as Heinrich von Kleist?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  5. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  6. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  7. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  8. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  14. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  16. Heinrich von Kleist, 1777 – 1811
  17. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  18. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  19. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  20. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  21. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  22. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  23. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  24. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849

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When Heinrich von Kleist was born, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 and Voltaire was 82.

When Heinrich von Kleist died, Abraham Lincoln was 2, Napoleon was 42, Charles Darwin was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 62 and Victor Hugo was 9.

Born during Heinrich von Kleist’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron and Frédéric Chopin.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 7 years after Heinrich von Kleist died, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 10 years after Heinrich von Kleist died, Charles Dickens was born about a year after Heinrich von Kleist died and Otto von Bismarck was born about 4 years after Heinrich von Kleist died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

394 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Heinrich von Kleist. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1794.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  12. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  14. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  24. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  25. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  26. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  27. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  28. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  29. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  30. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  31. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  32. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  33. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  34. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  35. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  36. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  37. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  38. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  39. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  40. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  41. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  42. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  43. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  44. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  45. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  46. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  47. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  48. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  49. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  50. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  51. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  52. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  53. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  54. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  55. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  56. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  57. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  58. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  59. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  60. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  61. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  62. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  63. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  64. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  65. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  66. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  67. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  68. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  69. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  70. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  71. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  73. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  74. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  75. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  76. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  77. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  78. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  79. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  80. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  81. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  82. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  83. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  84. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  85. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  86. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  87. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  88. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  89. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  90. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  91. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  92. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  93. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  94. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  96. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  97. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  98. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  99. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  100. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  101. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  102. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  103. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  104. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  105. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  106. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  107. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  108. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  109. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  110. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  111. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  112. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  113. George III 1738 – 1820
  114. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  115. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  116. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  117. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  118. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  119. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  120. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  121. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  122. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  123. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  124. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  125. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  126. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  127. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  128. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  129. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  130. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  131. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  132. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  133. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  134. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  135. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  136. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  137. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  138. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  139. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  140. William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898
  141. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  142. Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
  143. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  144. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  145. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  146. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  147. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  148. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  149. William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
  150. Évariste Galois 1811 – 1832