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Louis Philippe I
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Louis Philippe I

King of the French

Born 6 October 1773 · died 26 August 1850, aged 76
Also known as Louis-Philippe I, Citizen King, Louis Philippe

Who was alive at the same time as Louis Philippe I?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  11. Louis Philippe I, 1773 – 1850
  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. 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 Louis Philippe I was born, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 41, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 17 and Voltaire was 78.

When Louis Philippe I died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during Louis Philippe I’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 Louis Philippe I died, Sigmund Freud was born about 6 years after Louis Philippe I died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 11 years after Louis Philippe I died and Anton Chekhov was born about 10 years after Louis Philippe I died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

713 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Louis Philippe I. 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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  25. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  26. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  27. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  32. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  33. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  34. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  35. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  36. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  37. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  38. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  42. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  43. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  52. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  60. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  61. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  66. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  69. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  70. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  71. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  80. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  81. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  82. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  83. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  84. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  85. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  86. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  87. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  88. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  89. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  90. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  91. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  92. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  93. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  94. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  95. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  96. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  97. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  98. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  99. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  100. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  101. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  102. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  103. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  104. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  105. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  106. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  107. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  108. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  110. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  111. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  112. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  113. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  114. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  115. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  116. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  117. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  118. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  119. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  120. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  121. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  122. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  123. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  124. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  125. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  126. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  127. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  128. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  129. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  130. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  131. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  132. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  133. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  134. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  135. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  136. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  137. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  138. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  139. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  140. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  141. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  142. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  143. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  144. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  145. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  146. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  147. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  148. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  149. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  150. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847