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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

French chemist and physicist

Born 6 December 1778 · died 9 May 1850, aged 71
Also known as Louis Joseph Gay Lussac, Louis Gay-Lussac, Joseph Gay-Lussac

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac?

  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. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, 1778 – 1850
  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 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born, Napoleon was 9, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 29, George Washington was 46, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 and Immanuel Kant was 54.

When Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac’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 3 years after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac died, Voltaire died months before Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born, Sigmund Freud was born about 6 years after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 11 years after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

696 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1814.

  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  40. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  41. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  42. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  43. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  44. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  45. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  46. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  47. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  48. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  49. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  50. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  51. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  52. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  53. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  54. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  55. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  56. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  57. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  58. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  59. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  60. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  61. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  62. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  63. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  64. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  65. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  66. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  67. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  68. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  69. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  70. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  71. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  72. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  73. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  74. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  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. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  81. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  82. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  83. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  84. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  85. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  86. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  87. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  88. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  89. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  90. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  91. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  92. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  93. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  94. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  95. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  96. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  97. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  98. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  99. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  100. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  101. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  102. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  103. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  104. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  105. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  106. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  107. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  108. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  109. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  110. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  111. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  112. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  113. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  114. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  115. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  116. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  117. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  118. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  119. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  120. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  121. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  122. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  123. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  124. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  125. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  126. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  127. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  128. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  129. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  130. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  131. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  132. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  133. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  134. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  135. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  136. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  137. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  138. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  139. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  140. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  141. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  142. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  143. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  144. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  145. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  146. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  147. William James 1842 – 1910
  148. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  149. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  150. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907