Who Was Alive

Were Mary Wollstonecraft and Napoleon alive at the same time?

Yes. Mary Wollstonecraft and Napoleon were alive at the same time for 28 years, from 1769 to 1797.

Mary Wollstonecraft was 10 when Napoleon was born.

Napoleon was 28 when Mary Wollstonecraft died, aged 38.

Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and intellectual

Born 27 April 1759 · died 10 September 1797, aged 38

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. Mary Wollstonecraft
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
Mary Wollstonecraft and Napoleon in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.