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Robert Fulton
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Robert Fulton

American engineer and inventor

Born 14 November 1765 · died 24 February 1815, aged 49

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Fulton?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  5. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  6. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  7. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  8. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  11. Robert Fulton, 1765 – 1815
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  14. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  16. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  17. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  18. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  19. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  20. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  21. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  22. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  23. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  24. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883

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When Robert Fulton was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 16, George Washington was 33, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 9, Voltaire was 70 and Immanuel Kant was 41.

When Robert Fulton died, Abraham Lincoln was 6, Napoleon was 45, Charles Darwin was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 65 and Victor Hugo was 12.

Born during Robert Fulton’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 3 years after Robert Fulton died, Leo Tolstoy was born about 13 years after Robert Fulton died, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 6 years after Robert Fulton died and Otto von Bismarck was born months after Robert Fulton died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

434 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Fulton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1790.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  37. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  38. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  39. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  40. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  41. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  42. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  43. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  44. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  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. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  63. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  64. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  65. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  66. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  67. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  68. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  69. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  70. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  71. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  72. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  73. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  74. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  75. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  76. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  77. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  78. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  79. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  80. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  81. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  82. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  83. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  84. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  85. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  86. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  87. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  88. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  89. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  90. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  91. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  92. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  93. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  94. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  95. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  96. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  97. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  98. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  99. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  100. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  101. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  102. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  103. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  104. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  105. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  106. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  107. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  108. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  109. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  110. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  111. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  112. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  113. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  114. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  115. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  116. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  117. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  118. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  119. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  120. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  121. George III 1738 – 1820
  122. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  123. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  124. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  125. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  126. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  127. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  128. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  129. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  130. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  131. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  132. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  133. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  134. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  135. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  136. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  137. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  138. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  139. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  140. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  141. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  142. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  143. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  144. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  145. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  146. David Livingstone 1813 – 1873
  147. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  148. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  149. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  150. William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898