Who Was Alive

Jeremy Bentham

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer

Born 15 February 1748 · died 6 June 1832, aged 84

Who was alive at the same time as Jeremy Bentham?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  4. Adam Smith
  5. Immanuel Kant
  6. George Washington
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Jeremy Bentham
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. Lord Byron
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Victor Hugo
  16. Hans Christian Andersen
  17. Edgar Allan Poe
  18. Abraham Lincoln
  19. Charles Darwin
  20. Charles Dickens
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Jeremy Bentham was born, George Washington was 15, Johann Sebastian Bach was 62, Voltaire was 53, Immanuel Kant was 23 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 35.

When Jeremy Bentham died, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

Born during Jeremy Bentham’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 12 years after Jeremy Bentham died, Thomas Edison was born 15 years after Jeremy Bentham died, Mark Twain was born 3 years after Jeremy Bentham died and Sarah Bernhardt was born 12 years after Jeremy Bentham died.

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  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. 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
  37. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  38. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  39. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  40. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  41. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  42. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  43. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  44. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  52. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  53. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  54. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  55. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  56. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  57. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  58. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
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  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  62. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  63. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  64. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  65. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  66. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  67. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  68. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  69. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  70. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  71. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  72. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  73. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  74. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  75. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  76. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  77. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
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  79. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  80. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  82. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
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  119. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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