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Peter Simon Pallas
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Peter Simon Pallas

German zoologist and botanist

Born 22 September 1741 · died 8 September 1811, aged 69
Also known as P. Pallas, P. S. Pallas, Peter S. Pallas

Who was alive at the same time as Peter Simon Pallas?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  9. Peter Simon Pallas, 1741 – 1811
  10. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  14. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  15. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  17. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  18. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  19. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  20. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  21. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  22. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  23. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  24. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849

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When Peter Simon Pallas was born, George Washington was 9, Johann Sebastian Bach was 56, Voltaire was 46, Immanuel Kant was 17 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 29.

When Peter Simon Pallas died, Abraham Lincoln was 2, Napoleon was 42, Charles Darwin was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 62 and Victor Hugo was 9.

Born during Peter Simon Pallas’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 7 years after Peter Simon Pallas died, Isaac Newton died about 14 years before Peter Simon Pallas was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 10 years after Peter Simon Pallas died and Charles Dickens was born about a year after Peter Simon Pallas died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

447 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Peter Simon Pallas. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1776.

  1. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  20. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  26. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  27. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  32. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  33. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  34. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  35. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  36. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  37. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  38. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  39. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  40. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  41. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  42. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  43. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  44. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  45. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  46. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  47. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  48. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  49. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  50. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  51. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  52. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  53. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  54. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  55. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  56. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  57. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  58. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  59. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  60. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  61. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  62. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  63. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  64. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  65. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  66. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  67. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  68. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  69. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  70. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  71. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  72. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  73. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  74. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  75. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  76. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  77. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  78. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  79. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  81. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  82. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  83. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  84. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  85. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  86. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  87. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  88. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  89. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  90. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  91. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  92. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  93. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  94. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  95. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  96. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  97. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  98. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  99. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  100. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  101. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  102. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  103. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  104. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  105. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  106. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  107. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  108. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  109. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  110. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  111. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  112. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  113. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  114. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  115. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  116. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  117. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  118. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  119. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  120. George III 1738 – 1820
  121. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  122. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  123. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  124. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  125. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  126. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  127. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  128. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  129. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  130. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  131. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  132. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  133. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  134. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  135. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  136. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  137. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  138. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  139. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  140. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  141. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  142. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  143. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  144. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  145. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  146. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  147. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  148. William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898
  149. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  150. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744