Who Was Alive
Théodore Géricault
Horace Vernet, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Théodore Géricault

French painter

Born 26 September 1791 · died 26 January 1824, aged 32
Also known as Theodore Gericault, Théodore Gericault, Teodor Zheriko

Who was alive at the same time as Théodore Géricault?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  8. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  10. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  11. Théodore Géricault, 1791 – 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. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  19. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  20. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895

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When Théodore Géricault was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When Théodore Géricault died, Karl Marx was 5, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 74 and Victor Hugo was 21.

Born during Théodore Géricault’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 4 years after Théodore Géricault died, Voltaire died about 13 years before Théodore Géricault was born, Mark Twain was born about 11 years after Théodore Géricault died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died about 13 years before Théodore Géricault was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

460 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Théodore Géricault. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1808.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  27. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  28. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  29. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  30. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  31. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  32. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  33. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  34. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  35. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  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. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  47. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  48. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  49. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  50. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  51. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  52. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  53. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  54. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  55. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  56. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  57. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  58. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  59. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  60. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  61. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  62. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  63. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  64. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  65. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  66. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  67. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  68. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  69. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  70. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  71. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  72. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  73. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  74. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  75. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  76. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  77. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  78. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  79. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  80. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  81. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  82. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  83. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  84. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  85. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  86. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  87. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  88. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  89. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  90. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  92. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  93. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  94. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  95. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  96. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  97. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  98. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  99. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  100. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  101. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  102. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  103. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  104. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  105. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  106. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  107. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  108. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  109. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  110. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  111. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  112. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  113. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  114. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  115. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  116. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  117. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  118. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  119. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  120. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  121. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  122. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  123. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  124. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  125. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  126. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  127. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  128. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  129. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  130. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  131. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  132. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  133. George III 1738 – 1820
  134. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  135. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  136. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  137. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  138. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  139. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  140. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  141. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  142. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  143. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  144. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  145. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  146. Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
  147. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  148. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  149. Baháʼu'lláh 1817 – 1892
  150. Jacques Offenbach 1819 – 1880