Who Was Alive
Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams

American philosopher

Born 27 September 1722 · died 2 October 1803, aged 81
Also known as Sam Adams

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel Adams?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Samuel Adams, 1722 – 1803
  9. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  10. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  18. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  20. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  22. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  23. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  24. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885

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When Samuel Adams was born, Isaac Newton was 79, Johann Sebastian Bach was 37, Voltaire was 27, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 10 and Benjamin Franklin was 16.

When Samuel Adams died, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 4.

Born during Samuel Adams’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Immanuel Kant and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 15 years after Samuel Adams died, Abraham Lincoln was born about 6 years after Samuel Adams died, Charles Darwin was born about 6 years after Samuel Adams died and Charles Dickens was born about 9 years after Samuel Adams died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

409 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Samuel Adams. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1763.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  17. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  21. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  22. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  23. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  28. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  29. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  30. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  31. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  32. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  33. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  34. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  35. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  36. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  37. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  38. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  39. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  40. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  41. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  42. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  43. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  44. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  45. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  46. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  47. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  48. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  49. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  50. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  51. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  52. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  53. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  54. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  55. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  56. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  57. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  58. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  59. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  60. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  61. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  62. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  63. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  64. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  65. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  66. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  67. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  68. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  69. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  70. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  71. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  72. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  73. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  74. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  75. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  76. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  77. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  78. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  79. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  80. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  81. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  82. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  83. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  84. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  85. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  86. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  87. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  88. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  89. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  90. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  91. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  92. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  93. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  94. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  95. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  96. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  97. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  98. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  99. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  100. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  101. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  102. George III 1738 – 1820
  103. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  104. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  105. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  106. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  107. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  108. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  109. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  110. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  111. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  112. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  113. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  114. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  115. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  116. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  117. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  118. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  119. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  120. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  121. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  122. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  123. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  124. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  125. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  126. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  127. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  128. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  129. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  130. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  131. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  132. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  133. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  134. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  135. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  136. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  137. William IV 1765 – 1837
  138. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  139. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  140. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  141. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  142. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  143. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  144. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  145. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  146. George IV 1762 – 1830
  147. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  148. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  149. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  150. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794