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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist

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

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck?

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When Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was born, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 49, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 32.

When Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died, Karl Marx was 11, Abraham Lincoln was 20, Leo Tolstoy was 1, Charles Darwin was 20 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 80.

Born during Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born 15 years after Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died, Mark Twain was born 6 years after Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died, Sarah Bernhardt was born 15 years after Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died and Alfred Nobel was born 4 years after Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died.

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  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  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. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  36. James Cook 1728 – 1779
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