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John James Audubon
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John James Audubon

French ornithologist and naturalist

Born 26 April 1785 · died 27 January 1851, aged 65
Also known as Jean-Jacques Fougère, john j. audubon, Jean-Jacques Fougere

Who was alive at the same time as John James Audubon?

  1. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  9. John James Audubon, 1785 – 1851
  10. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  18. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  19. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When John James Audubon was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 61.

When John James Audubon died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 22, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during John James Audubon’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 2 years after John James Audubon died, Voltaire died about 7 years before John James Audubon was born, Sigmund Freud was born about 5 years after John James Audubon died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 10 years after John James Audubon died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

692 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John James Audubon. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1818.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  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. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  43. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  44. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  45. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  46. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  47. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  48. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  49. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  50. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  51. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  52. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  53. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  54. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  55. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  56. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  57. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  58. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  59. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  60. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  61. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  62. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  63. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  64. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  65. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  66. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  67. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  68. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  69. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  70. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  71. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  72. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  73. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  74. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  75. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  76. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  77. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  78. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  79. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  80. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  81. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  82. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  83. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  84. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  85. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  86. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  87. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  88. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  89. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  90. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  91. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  92. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  93. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  94. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  95. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  96. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  97. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  98. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  99. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  100. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  101. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  102. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  103. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  104. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  105. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  106. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  107. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  108. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  109. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  110. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  111. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  112. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  113. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  114. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  115. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  116. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  117. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  118. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  119. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  120. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  121. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  122. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  123. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  124. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  125. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  126. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  127. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  128. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  129. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  130. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  131. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  132. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  133. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  134. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  135. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  136. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  137. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  138. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  139. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  140. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  141. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  142. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  143. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  144. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  145. William James 1842 – 1910
  146. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  147. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  148. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  149. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  150. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863