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Pope Pius VIII
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Pope Pius VIII

Latin Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 20 November 1761 · died 30 November 1830, aged 69
Also known as Pius VIII

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Pius VIII?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  10. Pope Pius VIII, 1761 – 1830
  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. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Pope Pius VIII was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 12, George Washington was 29, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 5, Voltaire was 66 and Immanuel Kant was 37.

When Pope Pius VIII died, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

Born during Pope Pius VIII’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach died about 11 years before Pope Pius VIII was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 14 years after Pope Pius VIII died, Mark Twain was born about 5 years after Pope Pius VIII died and Sarah Bernhardt was born about 14 years after Pope Pius VIII died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

560 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Pius VIII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1796.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  42. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  43. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  44. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  52. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  55. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  56. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  57. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  58. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  59. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  61. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  63. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  64. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  65. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  68. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  69. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  70. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  71. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  72. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  73. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  74. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  75. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  76. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  77. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  78. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  79. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  80. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  81. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  82. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  83. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  84. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  85. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  86. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  87. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  88. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  89. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  90. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  91. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  92. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  93. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  94. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  95. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  96. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  97. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  98. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  99. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  100. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  101. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  102. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  103. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  104. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  105. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  106. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  107. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  108. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  109. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  110. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  111. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  112. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  113. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  114. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  115. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  116. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  117. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  118. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  119. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  120. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  121. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  122. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  123. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  124. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  125. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  126. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  127. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  128. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  129. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  130. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  131. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  132. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  133. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  134. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  135. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  136. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  137. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  138. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  139. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  140. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  141. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  142. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  143. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  144. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  145. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  146. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  147. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  148. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  149. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  150. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859