Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Franklin Pierce alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and Franklin Pierce were alive at the same time for 16 years, from 1804 to 1821.

Napoleon was 35 when Franklin Pierce was born.

Franklin Pierce was 16 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

Franklin Pierce

President of the United States from 1853 to 1857

Born 23 November 1804 · died 8 October 1869, aged 64

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Franklin Pierce
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
Napoleon and Franklin Pierce 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.