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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Emperor of Haiti

Born 20 September 1758 · died 17 October 1806, aged 48
Also known as Jean Jacques Dessalines, Jacques I, Jacques I of Haiti

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Jacques Dessalines?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  9. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  10. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  11. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  12. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  15. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, 1758 – 1806
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  17. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  19. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  21. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  22. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  23. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  24. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875

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When Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 26, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 2, Voltaire was 63 and Immanuel Kant was 34.

When Jean-Jacques Dessalines died, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 57, Victor Hugo was 4, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

Born during Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 12 years after Jean-Jacques Dessalines died, Abraham Lincoln was born about 3 years after Jean-Jacques Dessalines died, Charles Darwin was born about 3 years after Jean-Jacques Dessalines died and Johann Sebastian Bach died about 8 years before Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

384 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1782.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  10. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  32. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  37. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  38. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  39. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  40. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  41. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  43. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  44. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  45. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  46. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  47. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  48. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  49. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  50. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  51. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  52. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  53. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  54. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  55. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  56. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  57. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  58. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  59. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  60. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  61. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  62. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  63. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  64. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  65. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  66. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  67. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  68. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  69. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  70. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  71. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  72. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  73. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  74. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  75. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  76. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  77. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  78. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  79. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  80. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  81. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  82. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  83. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  84. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  85. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  86. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  87. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  88. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  89. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  90. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  91. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  92. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  93. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  94. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  95. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  96. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  97. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  98. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  99. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  100. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  101. George III 1738 – 1820
  102. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  103. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  104. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  105. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  106. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  107. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  108. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  109. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  110. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  111. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  112. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  113. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  114. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  115. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  116. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  117. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  118. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  119. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  120. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  121. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  122. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  123. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  124. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  125. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  126. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  127. Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
  128. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  129. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  130. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  131. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  132. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  133. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  134. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  135. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  136. William IV 1765 – 1837
  137. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  138. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  139. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  140. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  141. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  142. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  143. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  144. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  145. George IV 1762 – 1830
  146. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  147. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  148. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  149. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  150. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829