Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Carl Friedrich Gauss alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and Carl Friedrich Gauss were alive at the same time for 44 years, from 1777 to 1821.

Napoleon was 7 when Carl Friedrich Gauss was born.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was 44 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

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

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist

Born 30 April 1777 · died 23 February 1855, aged 77

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Napoleon and Carl Friedrich Gauss 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.