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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

French physicist

Born 1 June 1796 · died 24 August 1832, aged 36
Also known as Nicolas Carnot, Sadi Carnot, Leonard Sadi Carnot

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  9. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  10. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, 1796 – 1832
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 64, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

When Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

Born during Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 5 years before Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 12 years after Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died, Thomas Edison was born about 15 years after Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died and Mark Twain was born about 3 years after Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

498 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1814.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  40. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  41. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  44. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  45. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  46. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  47. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  48. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  49. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  50. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  51. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  52. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  53. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  54. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  55. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  56. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  57. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  58. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  59. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  60. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  61. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  62. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  63. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  64. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  65. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  66. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  67. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  68. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  69. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  70. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  71. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  72. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  73. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  74. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  75. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  76. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  77. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  78. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  79. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  80. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  81. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  82. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  83. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  84. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  85. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  86. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  87. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  88. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  89. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  90. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  91. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  92. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  93. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  94. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  95. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  96. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  97. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  98. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  99. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  100. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  101. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  102. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  103. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  104. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  105. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  106. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  107. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  108. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  109. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  110. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  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. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  117. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  118. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  119. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  120. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  121. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  122. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  123. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  124. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  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. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  134. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  135. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  136. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  137. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  138. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  139. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  140. George III 1738 – 1820
  141. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  142. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  143. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  144. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  145. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  146. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  147. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  148. Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910
  149. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  150. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814