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Siméon Denis Poisson
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Siméon Denis Poisson

French mathematician and physicist

Born 21 June 1781 · died 25 April 1840, aged 58
Also known as Simeon Denis Poisson, Simeon-Denis Poisson, Denis Poisson

Who was alive at the same time as Siméon Denis Poisson?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Siméon Denis Poisson, 1781 – 1840
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Siméon Denis Poisson was born, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 57.

When Siméon Denis Poisson died, Karl Marx was 21, Abraham Lincoln was 31, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 31 and Victor Hugo was 38.

Born during Siméon Denis Poisson’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 13 years after Siméon Denis Poisson died, Voltaire died about 3 years before Siméon Denis Poisson was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 4 years after Siméon Denis Poisson died and Thomas Edison was born about 7 years after Siméon Denis Poisson died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

602 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Siméon Denis Poisson. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1811.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  40. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  49. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  50. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  51. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  52. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  57. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  58. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  59. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  60. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  61. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  62. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  63. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  64. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  65. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  66. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  67. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  68. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  69. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  70. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  71. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  72. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  73. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  74. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  75. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  76. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  77. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  78. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  79. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  80. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  81. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  82. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  83. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  84. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  85. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  86. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  87. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  88. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  89. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  90. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  91. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  92. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  93. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  94. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  95. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  96. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  97. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  98. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  99. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  100. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  101. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  102. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  103. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  104. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  105. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  106. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  107. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  108. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  109. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  110. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  111. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  112. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  113. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  114. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  115. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  116. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  117. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  118. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  119. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  120. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  121. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  122. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  123. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  124. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  125. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  126. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  127. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  128. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  129. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  130. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  131. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  132. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  133. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  134. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  135. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  136. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  137. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  138. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  139. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  140. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  141. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  142. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  143. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  144. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  145. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  146. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  147. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  148. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  149. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  150. William Herschel 1738 – 1822