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Joseph Fouché
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Joseph Fouché

French essayist

Born 21 May 1759 · died 26 December 1820, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Fouché?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  5. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  6. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  7. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  8. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Joseph Fouché, 1759 – 1820
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  14. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  15. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  16. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  17. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  18. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  19. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  20. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  21. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  22. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  23. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  24. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883

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When Joseph Fouché was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 35.

When Joseph Fouché died, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 11, Napoleon was 51, Charles Darwin was 11 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71.

Born during Joseph Fouché’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 8 years after Joseph Fouché died, Johann Sebastian Bach died about 9 years before Joseph Fouché was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about a year after Joseph Fouché died and Mark Twain was born about 15 years after Joseph Fouché died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

495 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Fouché. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1790.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  41. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  42. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  50. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  51. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  52. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  53. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  54. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  55. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  56. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  57. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  61. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  62. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  63. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  64. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  65. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  66. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  67. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  68. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  69. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  70. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  71. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  72. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  73. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  74. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  75. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  76. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  77. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  78. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  79. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  80. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  81. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  82. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  83. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  84. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  85. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  86. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  87. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  88. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  89. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  90. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  91. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  92. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  93. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  94. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  95. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  96. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  97. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  98. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  99. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  100. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  101. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  102. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  103. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  104. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  105. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  106. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  107. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  108. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  109. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  110. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  111. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  112. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  113. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  114. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  115. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  116. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  117. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  118. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  119. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  120. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  121. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  122. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  123. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  124. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  125. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  126. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  127. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  128. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  129. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  130. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  131. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  132. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  133. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  134. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  135. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  136. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  137. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  138. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  139. George III 1738 – 1820
  140. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  141. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  142. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  143. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  144. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  145. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  146. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  147. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  148. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  149. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  150. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832