Who Was Alive

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer

Born 15 September 1789 · died 14 September 1851, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as James Fenimore Cooper?

  1. Adam Smith
  2. Immanuel Kant
  3. George Washington
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven
  8. Napoleon
  9. Lord Byron
  10. James Fenimore Cooper
  11. Alexander Pushkin
  12. Victor Hugo
  13. Hans Christian Andersen
  14. Edgar Allan Poe
  15. Abraham Lincoln
  16. Charles Darwin
  17. Charles Dickens
  18. Otto von Bismarck
  19. Karl Marx
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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 James Fenimore Cooper was born, Napoleon was 20, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 40, George Washington was 57, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 33 and Immanuel Kant was 65.

When James Fenimore Cooper died, Karl Marx was 33, Abraham Lincoln was 42, Leo Tolstoy was 23, Charles Darwin was 42 and Victor Hugo was 49.

Born during James Fenimore Cooper’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 2 years after James Fenimore Cooper died, Voltaire died 11 years before James Fenimore Cooper was born, Sigmund Freud was born 5 years after James Fenimore Cooper died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 10 years after James Fenimore Cooper died.

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All 304 contemporaries we track

  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  37. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  38. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  39. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
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  46. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  47. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  48. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  50. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  51. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  52. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
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  54. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  55. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  56. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  57. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  58. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  59. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
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  63. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  64. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  65. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
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  67. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  69. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  70. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  71. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  72. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  73. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  74. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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  76. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
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