Who Was Alive

Louis XVI of France

King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792

Born 23 August 1754 · died 21 January 1793, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Louis XVI of France?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Louis XVI of France
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Katsushika Hokusai
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Louis XVI of France was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 4, George Washington was 22, Voltaire was 59, Immanuel Kant was 30 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 42.

When Louis XVI of France died, Napoleon was 23, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 43, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 68 and Thomas Jefferson was 49.

Born during Louis XVI of France’s lifetime: Napoleon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schiller.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born 9 years after Louis XVI of France died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 4 years before Louis XVI of France was born, Alexander Pushkin was born 6 years after Louis XVI of France died and Hans Christian Andersen was born 12 years after Louis XVI of France died.

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All 129 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  23. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  32. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  33. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  37. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  38. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  39. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  40. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  41. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  42. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  43. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  44. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  45. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  46. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  47. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  48. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  49. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  50. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  51. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  52. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  53. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  54. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  55. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  56. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  57. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  58. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  59. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  60. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  61. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  62. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  63. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  64. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  65. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  66. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  67. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  68. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  69. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  70. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  71. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  72. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  73. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  74. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  75. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  76. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  77. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  78. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  79. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  80. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  81. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  82. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  83. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  84. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  85. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  86. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  87. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  88. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  89. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  90. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  91. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  92. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  93. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  94. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  95. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  96. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  97. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  98. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  99. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  100. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  101. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  102. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  103. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  104. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  105. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  106. William IV 1765 – 1837
  107. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  108. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  109. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  110. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  111. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  112. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  113. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  114. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  115. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  116. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  117. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  118. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  119. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  120. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  121. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  122. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  123. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  124. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  125. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  126. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  127. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  128. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  129. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817