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Martha Washington
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Martha Washington

American politician

Born 13 June 1731 · died 22 May 1802, aged 70
Also known as Martha Dandridge, Martha Custis

Who was alive at the same time as Martha Washington?

  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. Martha Washington, 1731 – 1802
  11. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  12. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  18. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  20. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  22. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  23. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  24. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885

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When Martha Washington was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 46, Voltaire was 36, Immanuel Kant was 7, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 18 and Adam Smith was 7 or 8.

When Martha Washington died, Napoleon was 32, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 52, Victor Hugo was under a year old, Immanuel Kant was 78 and Alexander Pushkin was 2.

Born during Martha Washington’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 4 years before Martha Washington was born, Abraham Lincoln was born about 7 years after Martha Washington died, Charles Darwin was born about 7 years after Martha Washington died and Charles Dickens was born about 10 years after Martha Washington died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

390 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Martha Washington. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1767.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  32. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  37. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  38. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  39. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  40. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  41. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  42. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  43. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  44. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  45. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  46. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  47. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  48. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  49. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  50. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  51. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  52. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  53. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  54. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  55. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  56. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  57. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  58. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  59. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  60. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  61. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  62. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  63. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  64. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  65. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  66. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  67. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  68. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  69. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  70. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  71. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  72. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  73. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  74. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  75. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  76. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  77. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  78. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  79. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  80. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  81. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  82. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  83. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  84. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  85. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  86. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  87. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  88. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  89. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  90. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  91. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  92. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  93. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  94. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  95. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  96. George III 1738 – 1820
  97. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  98. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  99. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  100. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  101. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  102. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  103. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  104. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  105. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  106. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  107. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  108. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  109. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  110. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  111. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  112. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  113. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  114. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  115. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  116. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  117. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  118. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  119. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  120. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  121. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  122. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  123. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  124. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  125. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  126. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  127. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  128. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  129. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  130. William IV 1765 – 1837
  131. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  132. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  133. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  134. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  135. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  136. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  137. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  138. George IV 1762 – 1830
  139. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  140. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  141. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  142. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  143. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  144. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  145. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  146. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  147. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  148. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  149. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  150. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829