Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Nathaniel Hawthorne alive at the same time?

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

Napoleon was 34 when Nathaniel Hawthorne was born.

Nathaniel Hawthorne 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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

Born 4 July 1804 · died 19 May 1864, aged 59

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