Who Was Alive

Henry Cavendish

English natural philosopher, and scientist

Born 10 October 1731 · died 24 February 1810, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Henry Cavendish?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. Henry Cavendish
  9. George Washington
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven
  14. Napoleon
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  16. Jane Austen
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  18. Lord Byron
  19. Alexander Pushkin
  20. Victor Hugo
  21. Hans Christian Andersen
  22. Edgar Allan Poe
  23. Abraham Lincoln
  24. Charles Darwin
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 Henry Cavendish was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 46, Voltaire was 36, Immanuel Kant was 7, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 19 and Adam Smith was 8.

When Henry Cavendish died, Abraham Lincoln was 1, Napoleon was 40, Charles Darwin was 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 60 and Victor Hugo was 7.

Born during Henry Cavendish’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 8 years after Henry Cavendish died, Isaac Newton died 4 years before Henry Cavendish was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 11 years after Henry Cavendish died and Charles Dickens was born 2 years after Henry Cavendish died.

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  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  20. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  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. Katsushika 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. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  36. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  37. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  38. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  39. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
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  44. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
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  53. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  54. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
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  57. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  58. John Keats 1795 – 1821
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  62. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  63. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  64. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
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  66. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  67. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  68. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  69. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  70. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  71. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  72. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  73. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  74. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  75. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  76. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  77. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
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  79. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  81. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
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  83. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  84. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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