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Louis XVII
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Louis XVII

King of France and Navarre

Born 27 March 1785 · died 8 June 1795, aged 10
Also known as Louis XVII of France, Louis-Charles de France

Who was alive at the same time as Louis XVII?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  12. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  13. Andrew Jackson, 1767 – 1845
  14. John Quincy Adams, 1767 – 1848
  15. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  16. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  18. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  20. Simón Bolívar, 1783 – 1830
  21. Louis XVII, 1785 – 1795
  22. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  23. Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 – 1860
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Louis XVII was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 60.

When Louis XVII died, Napoleon was 25, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 45, George Washington was 63, Immanuel Kant was 71 and Thomas Jefferson was 52.

Born during Louis XVII’s lifetime: Lord Byron, Michael Faraday, Arthur Schopenhauer, James Buchanan, John Tyler, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Babbage and Alphonse de Lamartine.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 14 years after Louis XVII died, Charles Darwin was born about 14 years after Louis XVII died, Victor Hugo was born about 7 years after Louis XVII died and Voltaire died about 7 years before Louis XVII was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

267 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Louis XVII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1790.

  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. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  9. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  12. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  13. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  16. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  17. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  18. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  19. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  20. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  21. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  22. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  23. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  24. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  25. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  26. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  27. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  28. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  29. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  30. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  31. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  32. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  33. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  34. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  35. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  36. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  37. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  38. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  39. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  42. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  43. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  44. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  45. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  46. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  47. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  48. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  49. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  50. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  51. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  52. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  53. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  54. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  55. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  56. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  57. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  58. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  59. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  60. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  61. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  62. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  63. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  64. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  65. George III 1738 – 1820
  66. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  67. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  68. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  69. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  70. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  71. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  72. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  73. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  74. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  75. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  76. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  77. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  78. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  79. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  80. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  81. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  82. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  83. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  84. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  85. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  86. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  87. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  88. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  89. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  90. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  91. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  92. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  93. William IV 1765 – 1837
  94. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  95. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  96. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  97. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  98. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  99. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  100. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  101. George IV 1762 – 1830
  102. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  103. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  104. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  105. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  106. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  107. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  108. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  109. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  110. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  111. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  112. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  113. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  114. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  115. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  116. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  117. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  118. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  119. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  120. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  121. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  122. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  123. John Herschel 1792 – 1871
  124. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  125. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  126. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  127. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  128. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  129. Jean-François Champollion 1790 – 1832
  130. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  131. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  132. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  133. Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789 – 1857
  134. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  135. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  136. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  137. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778 – 1850
  138. Louis Daguerre 1787 – 1851
  139. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  140. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  141. Jacob Grimm 1785 – 1863
  142. Carl Maria von Weber 1786 – 1826
  143. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  144. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  145. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  146. Leopold I of Belgium 1790 – 1865
  147. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  148. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  149. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  150. Mahmud II 1785 – 1839