Who Was Alive
Louis Bonaparte
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Louis Bonaparte

French king

Born 2 September 1778 · died 25 July 1846, aged 67
Also known as Louis I, Luigi Buonaparte

Who was alive at the same time as Louis Bonaparte?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Louis Bonaparte, 1778 – 1846
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  23. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  24. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900

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When Louis Bonaparte 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 Louis Bonaparte died, Karl Marx was 28, Abraham Lincoln was 37, Leo Tolstoy was 17, Charles Darwin was 37 and Victor Hugo was 44.

Born during Louis Bonaparte’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 7 years after Louis Bonaparte died, Voltaire died months before Louis Bonaparte was born, Thomas Edison was born about a year after Louis Bonaparte died and Sigmund Freud was born about 10 years after Louis Bonaparte died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

669 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Louis Bonaparte. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1812.

  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. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  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. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  37. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  40. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  41. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  42. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  43. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  44. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  45. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  46. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  47. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  49. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  50. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  51. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  52. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  53. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  54. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  55. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  56. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  57. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  58. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  59. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  60. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  61. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  62. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  63. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  64. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  65. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  66. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  67. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  68. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  69. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  70. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  71. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  72. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  73. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  74. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  75. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  76. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  77. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  78. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  79. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  80. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  81. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  82. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  83. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  84. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  85. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  86. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  87. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  88. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  89. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  90. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  91. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  92. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  93. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  94. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  95. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  96. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  97. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  98. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  99. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  100. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  101. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  102. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  103. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  104. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  105. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  106. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  107. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  108. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  109. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  110. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  111. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  112. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  113. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  114. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  115. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  116. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  117. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  118. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  119. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  120. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  121. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  122. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  123. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  124. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  125. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  126. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  127. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  128. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  129. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  130. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  131. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  132. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  133. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  134. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  135. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  136. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  137. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  138. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  139. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  140. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  141. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  142. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  143. William James 1842 – 1910
  144. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  145. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  146. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  147. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  148. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  149. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  150. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881