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Joséphine de Beauharnais
Baron François Gérard (1770 - 1837) – Painter (French) Born in Rome. Died in Paris. Details on Google Art Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Joséphine de Beauharnais

French art collector

Born 23 June 1763 · died 29 May 1814, aged 50
Also known as Kaiserin Josephine Frankreich, Empress of the French Josephine, keizerin van Frankrijk Joséphine

Who was alive at the same time as Joséphine de Beauharnais?

  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. Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1763 – 1814
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  14. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  16. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  17. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  18. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  19. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  20. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  21. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  22. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  23. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  24. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883

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When Joséphine de Beauharnais was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 13, George Washington was 31, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 7, Voltaire was 68 and Immanuel Kant was 39.

When Joséphine de Beauharnais died, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 12.

Born during Joséphine de Beauharnais’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 4 years after Joséphine de Beauharnais died, Leo Tolstoy was born about 14 years after Joséphine de Beauharnais died, Johann Sebastian Bach died about 13 years before Joséphine de Beauharnais was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 7 years after Joséphine de Beauharnais died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

433 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joséphine de Beauharnais. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1789.

  1. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  20. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  37. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  38. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  39. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  40. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  41. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  42. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  43. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  44. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  45. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  46. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  47. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  48. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  49. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  50. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  51. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  52. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  53. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  54. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  55. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  56. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  57. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  58. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  59. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  60. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  61. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  62. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  63. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  64. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  65. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  66. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  67. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  68. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  69. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  70. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  71. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  72. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  73. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  74. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  75. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  76. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  77. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  78. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  79. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  80. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  81. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  82. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  83. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  84. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  85. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  86. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  87. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  88. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  89. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  90. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  91. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  92. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  93. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  94. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  95. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  96. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  97. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  98. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  99. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  100. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  101. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  102. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  103. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  104. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  105. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  106. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  107. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  108. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  109. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  110. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  111. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  112. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  113. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  114. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  115. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  116. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  117. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  118. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  119. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  120. George III 1738 – 1820
  121. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  122. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  123. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  124. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  125. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  126. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  127. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  128. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  129. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  130. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  131. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  132. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  133. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  134. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  135. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  136. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  137. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  138. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  139. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  140. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  141. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  142. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  143. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  144. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  145. David Livingstone 1813 – 1873
  146. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  147. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  148. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  149. William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898
  150. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851