Who Was Alive

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer

Born c. 1770 · died 26 March 1827

Who was alive at the same time as Ludwig van Beethoven?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. Lord Byron
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Victor Hugo
  16. Hans Christian Andersen
  17. Edgar Allan Poe
  18. Abraham Lincoln
  19. Charles Darwin
  20. Charles Dickens
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Louis Pasteur
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When Ludwig van Beethoven died, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 25.

Born during Ludwig van Beethoven’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about a year after Ludwig van Beethoven died, Mark Twain was born 8 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died, Alfred Nobel was born 6 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born 13 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died.

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  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  33. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  34. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
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