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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

French writer and orator

Born 9 March 1749 · died 2 April 1791, aged 42
Also known as Mirabeau

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When Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was born, George Washington was 17, Johann Sebastian Bach was 63, Voltaire was 54, Immanuel Kant was 24 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 36.

When Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau died, Napoleon was 21, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 41, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 66.

Born during Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 11 years after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 8 years after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau died, Hans Christian Andersen was born about 14 years after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau died and Michael Faraday was born months after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

306 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1770.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  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. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  33. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  37. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  38. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  39. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  40. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  41. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  42. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  43. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  44. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  45. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  46. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  47. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  48. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  49. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  50. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  51. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  52. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  53. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  55. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  56. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  57. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  58. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  60. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  61. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  62. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  63. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  64. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  65. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  66. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  67. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  68. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  69. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  70. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  71. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  72. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  73. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  74. George III 1738 – 1820
  75. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  76. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  77. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  78. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  79. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  80. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  81. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  82. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  83. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  84. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  85. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  86. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  87. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  88. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  89. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  90. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  91. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  92. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  93. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  94. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  95. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  96. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  97. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  98. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  99. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  100. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  101. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  102. William IV 1765 – 1837
  103. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  104. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  105. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  106. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  107. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  108. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  109. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  110. George IV 1762 – 1830
  111. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  112. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  113. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  114. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  115. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  116. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  117. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  118. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  119. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  120. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  121. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  122. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  123. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  124. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  125. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  126. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  127. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  128. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  129. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  130. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  131. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  132. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  133. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  134. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  135. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  136. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  137. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  138. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  139. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  140. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  141. Jean-François Champollion 1790 – 1832
  142. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  143. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  144. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  145. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  146. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  147. Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789 – 1857
  148. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  149. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  150. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850