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Jean-Paul Marat
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Jean-Paul Marat

French politician and journalist

Born 24 May 1743 · died 13 July 1793, aged 50
Also known as Jean Paul Marat

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Paul Marat?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  13. Jean-Paul Marat, 1743 – 1793
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Jean-Paul Marat was born, George Washington was 11, Johann Sebastian Bach was 58, Voltaire was 48, Immanuel Kant was 19 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 30.

When Jean-Paul Marat died, Napoleon was 23, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 43, George Washington was 61, Immanuel Kant was 69 and Thomas Jefferson was 50.

Born during Jean-Paul Marat’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 9 years after Jean-Paul Marat died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 6 years after Jean-Paul Marat died, Hans Christian Andersen was born about 12 years after Jean-Paul Marat died and Honoré de Balzac was born about 6 years after Jean-Paul Marat died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

331 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean-Paul Marat. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1768.

  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  37. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  38. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  41. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  42. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  43. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  44. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  45. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  46. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  47. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  48. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  49. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  50. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  51. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  52. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  53. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  54. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  55. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  56. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  57. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  58. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  59. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  60. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  61. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  62. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  64. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  65. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  66. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  67. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  68. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  69. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  70. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  71. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  72. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  73. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  74. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  75. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  76. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  77. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  78. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  79. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  80. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  81. George III 1738 – 1820
  82. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  83. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  84. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  85. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  86. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  87. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  88. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  89. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  90. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  91. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  92. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  93. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  94. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  95. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  96. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  97. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  98. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  99. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  100. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  101. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  102. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  103. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  104. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  105. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  106. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  107. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  108. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  109. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  110. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  111. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  112. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  113. William IV 1765 – 1837
  114. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  115. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  116. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  117. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  118. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  119. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  120. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  121. George IV 1762 – 1830
  122. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  123. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  124. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  125. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  126. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  127. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  128. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  129. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  130. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  131. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  132. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  133. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  134. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  135. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  136. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  137. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  138. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  139. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  140. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  141. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  142. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  143. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  144. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  145. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  146. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  147. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  148. John Herschel 1792 – 1871
  149. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  150. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841