Who Was Alive

Napoleon

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

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

Who was alive at the same time as Napoleon?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. Jane Austen
  14. Lord Byron
  15. Alexander Pushkin
  16. Victor Hugo
  17. Hans Christian Andersen
  18. Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Abraham Lincoln
  20. Charles Darwin
  21. Charles Dickens
  22. Richard Wagner
  23. Otto von Bismarck
  24. Karl Marx
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When Napoleon was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 19, George Washington was 37, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 13, Voltaire was 74 and Immanuel Kant was 45.

When Napoleon died, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Charles Darwin was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71 and Victor Hugo was 19.

Born during Napoleon’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 7 years after Napoleon died, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born months after Napoleon died, Mark Twain was born 14 years after Napoleon died and Louis Pasteur was born about a year after Napoleon died.

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All 214 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  50. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  51. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  52. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  53. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  54. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  55. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  56. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  57. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  60. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  61. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  62. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  63. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  64. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  65. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  66. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  67. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  68. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  69. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  70. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  71. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  72. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  73. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  74. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  75. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  76. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  77. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  78. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  79. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  80. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  81. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  82. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  83. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  84. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  85. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  86. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  87. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  88. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  89. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  90. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  91. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  92. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  93. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  94. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  95. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  96. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  97. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  98. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  99. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  100. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  101. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  102. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  103. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  104. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  105. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  106. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  107. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  108. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  109. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  110. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  111. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  112. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  113. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  114. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  115. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  116. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  117. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  118. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  119. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  120. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  121. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  122. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  123. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  124. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  125. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  126. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  127. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  128. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  129. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  130. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  131. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  132. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  133. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  134. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  135. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  136. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  137. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  138. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  139. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  140. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  141. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  142. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  143. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  144. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  145. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  146. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  147. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  148. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  149. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  150. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834

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