Who Was Alive
Luigi Galvani
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Luigi Galvani

Italian physician and physicist

Born 9 September 1737 · died 4 December 1798, aged 61
Also known as Luigi Aloisio Galvani

Who was alive at the same time as Luigi Galvani?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Luigi Galvani, 1737 – 1798
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Luigi Galvani was born, George Washington was 5, Johann Sebastian Bach was 52, Voltaire was 42, Immanuel Kant was 13 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 25.

When Luigi Galvani died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

Born during Luigi Galvani’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 10 years before Luigi Galvani was born, Abraham Lincoln was born about 11 years after Luigi Galvani died, Charles Darwin was born about 11 years after Luigi Galvani died and Victor Hugo was born about 4 years after Luigi Galvani died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

367 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Luigi Galvani. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1768.

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  34. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  42. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  43. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  44. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  47. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  48. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  49. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  50. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  51. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  52. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  53. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  54. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  55. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  56. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  57. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  58. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  59. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  60. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  61. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  62. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  63. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  64. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  65. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  66. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  67. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  68. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  69. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  70. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  71. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  72. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  73. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  74. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  75. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  76. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  77. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  78. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  79. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  80. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  81. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  82. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  83. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  84. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  85. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  86. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  87. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  88. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  89. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  90. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  91. George III 1738 – 1820
  92. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  93. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  94. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  95. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  96. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  97. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  98. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  99. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  100. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  101. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  102. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  103. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  104. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  105. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  106. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  107. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  108. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  109. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  110. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  111. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  112. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  113. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  114. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  115. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  116. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  117. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  118. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  119. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  120. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  121. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  122. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  123. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  124. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  125. William IV 1765 – 1837
  126. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  127. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  128. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  129. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  130. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  131. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  132. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  133. George IV 1762 – 1830
  134. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  135. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  136. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  137. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  138. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  139. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  140. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  141. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  142. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  143. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  144. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  145. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  146. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  147. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  148. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  149. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  150. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810