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Olympe de Gouges
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Olympe de Gouges

French playwright

Born 7 May 1748 · died 3 November 1793, aged 45
Also known as Marie Olympe de Gouges, Marie Gouze, Marie Olympe

Who was alive at the same time as Olympe de Gouges?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  13. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  14. Olympe de Gouges, 1748 – 1793
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Olympe de Gouges was born, George Washington was 16, Johann Sebastian Bach was 63, Voltaire was 53, Immanuel Kant was 24 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 35.

When Olympe de Gouges died, Napoleon was 24, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44, George Washington was 61, Immanuel Kant was 69 and Thomas Jefferson was 50.

Born during Olympe de Gouges’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 9 years after Olympe de Gouges died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 6 years after Olympe de Gouges died, Hans Christian Andersen was born about 12 years after Olympe de Gouges died and Honoré de Balzac was born about 6 years after Olympe de Gouges died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

322 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Olympe de Gouges. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1771.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  31. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  32. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  37. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  40. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  41. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  42. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  43. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  44. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  45. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  46. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  47. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  48. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  49. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  50. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  51. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  52. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  53. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  54. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  55. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  56. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  58. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  59. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  60. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  61. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  62. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  63. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  64. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  65. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  66. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  67. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  68. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  69. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  70. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  71. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  72. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  73. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  74. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  75. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  76. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  77. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  78. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  79. George III 1738 – 1820
  80. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  81. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  82. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  83. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  84. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  85. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  86. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  87. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  88. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  89. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  90. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  91. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  92. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  93. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  94. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  95. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  96. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  97. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  98. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  99. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  100. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  101. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  102. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  103. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  104. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  105. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  106. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  107. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  108. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  109. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  110. William IV 1765 – 1837
  111. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  112. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  113. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  114. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  115. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  116. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  117. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  118. George IV 1762 – 1830
  119. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  120. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  121. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  122. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  123. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  124. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  125. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  126. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  127. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  128. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  129. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  130. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  131. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  132. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  133. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  134. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  135. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  136. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  137. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  138. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  139. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  140. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  141. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  142. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  143. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  144. John Herschel 1792 – 1871
  145. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  146. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  147. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  148. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  149. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  150. Jean-François Champollion 1790 – 1832