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Marquis de Lafayette
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Marquis de Lafayette

French politician

Born 6 September 1757 · died 20 May 1834, aged 76
Also known as Le Héros des Deux Mondes, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Michel de Lafayette

Who was alive at the same time as Marquis de Lafayette?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  10. Marquis de Lafayette, 1757 – 1834
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Marquis de Lafayette was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 8, George Washington was 25, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 1, Voltaire was 62 and Immanuel Kant was 33.

When Marquis de Lafayette died, Karl Marx was 16, Abraham Lincoln was 25, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 25 and Victor Hugo was 32.

Born during Marquis de Lafayette’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach died about 7 years before Marquis de Lafayette was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 10 years after Marquis de Lafayette died, Thomas Edison was born about 13 years after Marquis de Lafayette died and Mark Twain was born about a year after Marquis de Lafayette died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

596 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marquis de Lafayette. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1796.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  36. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  37. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  38. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  39. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  40. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  41. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  42. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  43. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  44. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  45. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  46. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  47. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  48. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  49. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  50. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  51. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  52. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  53. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  54. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  55. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  56. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  57. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  58. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  59. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  60. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  61. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  62. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  63. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  64. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  65. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  66. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  67. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  68. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  69. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  70. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  71. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  72. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  73. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  74. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  75. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  76. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  79. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  80. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  81. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  82. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  83. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  84. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  85. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  86. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  87. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  88. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  89. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  90. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  91. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  92. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  93. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  94. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  95. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  96. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  97. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  98. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  99. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  100. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  101. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  102. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  103. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  104. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  105. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  106. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  107. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  108. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  109. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  110. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  111. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  112. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  113. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  114. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  115. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  116. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  117. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  118. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  119. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  120. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  121. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  122. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  123. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  124. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  125. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  126. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  127. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  128. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  129. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  130. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  131. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  132. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  133. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  134. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  135. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  136. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  137. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  138. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  139. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  140. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  141. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  142. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  143. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  144. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  145. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  146. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  147. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  148. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  149. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  150. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814