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Lazare Carnot
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Lazare Carnot

French politician who served as President of the National Convention

Born 13 May 1753 · died 2 August 1823, aged 70
Also known as Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite Carnot, Nicolas Carnot

Who was alive at the same time as Lazare Carnot?

  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. Lazare Carnot, 1753 – 1823
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  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. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  23. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  24. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881

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When Lazare Carnot was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 3, George Washington was 21, Voltaire was 58, Immanuel Kant was 29 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 40.

When Lazare Carnot died, Karl Marx was 5, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 21.

Born during Lazare Carnot’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 5 years after Lazare Carnot died, Johann Sebastian Bach died about 3 years before Lazare Carnot was born, Mark Twain was born about 12 years after Lazare Carnot died and Alfred Nobel was born about 10 years after Lazare Carnot died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

526 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lazare Carnot. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1788.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  32. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  33. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  43. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  44. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  45. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  46. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  47. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  48. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  49. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  52. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  53. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  54. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  55. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  56. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  57. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  58. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  59. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  60. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  61. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  62. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  63. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  64. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  65. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  66. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  67. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  68. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  69. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  70. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  71. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  72. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  73. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  74. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  75. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  76. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  77. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  78. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  79. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  80. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  81. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  82. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  83. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  84. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  85. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  86. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  87. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  88. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  89. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  90. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  91. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  92. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  93. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  94. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  95. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  96. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  97. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  98. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  99. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  100. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  101. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  102. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  103. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  104. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  105. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  106. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  107. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  108. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  109. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  110. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  111. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  112. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  113. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  114. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  115. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  116. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  117. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  118. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  119. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  120. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  121. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  122. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  123. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  124. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  125. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  126. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  127. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  128. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  129. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  130. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  131. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  132. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  133. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  134. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  135. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  136. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  137. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  138. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  139. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  140. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  141. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  142. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  143. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  144. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  145. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  146. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  147. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  148. George III 1738 – 1820
  149. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  150. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873