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Nicolas Appert
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Nicolas Appert

French inventor

Born 17 November 1749 · died 1 June 1841, aged 91

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolas Appert?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Nicolas Appert, 1749 – 1841
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Nicolas Appert was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was under a year old, George Washington was 17, Johann Sebastian Bach was 64, Voltaire was 54 and Immanuel Kant was 25.

When Nicolas Appert died, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 12, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 39.

Born during Nicolas Appert’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 12 years after Nicolas Appert died, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 3 years after Nicolas Appert died, Thomas Edison was born about 6 years after Nicolas Appert died and Sigmund Freud was born about 15 years after Nicolas Appert died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

662 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nicolas Appert. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1795.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  20. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  26. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  27. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  28. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  29. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  39. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  40. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  41. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  42. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  43. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  44. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  45. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  46. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  47. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  48. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  49. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  57. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  58. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  59. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  60. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  61. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  62. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  65. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  66. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  67. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  68. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  69. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  70. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  71. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  74. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  75. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  76. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  77. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  78. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  79. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  80. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  81. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  82. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  83. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  84. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  85. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  86. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  87. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  88. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  89. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  90. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  91. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  92. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  93. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  94. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  95. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  96. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  97. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  98. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  99. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  100. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  101. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  102. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  103. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  104. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  105. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  106. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  107. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  108. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  109. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  110. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  111. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  112. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  113. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  114. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  115. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  116. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  117. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  118. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  119. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  120. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  121. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  122. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  123. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  124. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  125. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  126. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  127. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  128. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  129. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  130. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  131. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  132. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  133. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  134. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  135. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  136. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  137. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  138. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  139. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  140. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  141. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  142. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  143. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  144. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  145. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  146. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  147. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  148. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  149. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  150. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928