Who Was Alive

Were Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Napoleon alive at the same time?

Yes. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Napoleon were alive at the same time for 51 years, from 1769 to 1821.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was 25 when Napoleon was born.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was 76 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist

Born 1 August 1744 · died 18 December 1829, aged 85

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

  1. George Washington
  2. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Napoleon
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Napoleon in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.