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Louis XVIII
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Louis XVIII

King of the French

Born 17 November 1755 · died 16 September 1824, aged 68
Also known as Louis XVIII of France, the Desired

Who was alive at the same time as Louis XVIII?

  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. Louis XVIII, 1755 – 1824
  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 Louis XVIII was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 6, George Washington was 23, Voltaire was 60, Immanuel Kant was 31 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 43.

When Louis XVIII died, Karl Marx was 6, Abraham Lincoln was 15, Charles Darwin was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 75 and Victor Hugo was 22.

Born during Louis XVIII’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 4 years after Louis XVIII died, Johann Sebastian Bach died about 5 years before Louis XVIII was born, Mark Twain was born about 11 years after Louis XVIII died and Alfred Nobel was born about 9 years after Louis XVIII died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

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

  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. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  53. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  54. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  55. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  56. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  57. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  58. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  59. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  60. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  61. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  62. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  63. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  64. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  65. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  66. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  67. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  68. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  69. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  70. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  71. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  72. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  73. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  74. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  75. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  76. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  77. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  78. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  79. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  80. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  81. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  82. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  83. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  84. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  85. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  86. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  87. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  88. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  89. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  90. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  91. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  92. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  93. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  94. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  95. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  96. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  97. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  98. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  99. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  100. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  101. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  102. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  103. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  104. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  105. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  106. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  107. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  108. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  109. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  110. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  111. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  112. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  113. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  114. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  115. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  116. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  117. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  118. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  119. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  120. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  121. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  122. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  123. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  124. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  125. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  126. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  127. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  128. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  129. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  130. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  131. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  132. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  133. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  134. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  135. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  136. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  137. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  138. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  139. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  140. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  141. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  142. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  143. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  144. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  145. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  146. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  147. George III 1738 – 1820
  148. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  149. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  150. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868