Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Louis XVI of France alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Louis XVI of France were alive at the same time for 38 years, from 1754 to 1793.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 4 when Louis XVI of France was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 43 when Louis XVI of France died, aged 38.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

Louis XVI of France

King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792

Born 23 August 1754 · died 21 January 1793, aged 38

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Louis XVI of France
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Louis XVI of France 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.