Who Was Alive

Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist

Born 29 January 1737 (Julian calendar) · died 8 June 1809, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Paine?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. Thomas Paine
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven
  14. Napoleon
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  16. Jane Austen
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  18. Lord Byron
  19. Alexander Pushkin
  20. Victor Hugo
  21. Hans Christian Andersen
  22. Edgar Allan Poe
  23. Abraham Lincoln
  24. Charles Darwin
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When Thomas Paine was born, George Washington was 4, Johann Sebastian Bach was 51, Voltaire was 42, Immanuel Kant was 12 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 24.

When Thomas Paine died, Abraham Lincoln was under a year old, Napoleon was 39, Charles Darwin was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59 and Victor Hugo was 7.

Born during Thomas Paine’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 9 years after Thomas Paine died, Isaac Newton died 10 years before Thomas Paine was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 12 years after Thomas Paine died and Charles Dickens was born 3 years after Thomas Paine died.

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  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  20. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  24. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  25. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  26. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  27. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  28. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  29. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  30. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  31. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  32. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  33. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  34. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  35. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  36. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  37. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  38. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  39. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  40. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  41. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  42. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  43. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  44. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  45. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  46. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  47. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  48. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  49. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  50. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  51. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  52. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  53. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  54. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  55. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  56. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  57. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  58. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  59. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  60. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  61. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  62. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  63. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  64. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  65. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  66. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  67. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  68. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  69. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  70. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  71. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  72. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  73. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  74. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  75. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  76. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  77. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  78. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  79. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  80. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  81. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  82. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  83. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  84. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  85. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  86. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  87. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  88. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  89. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  90. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  91. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  92. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  93. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  94. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  96. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
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  99. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  100. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
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  115. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
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  117. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  118. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  119. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
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  121. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
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  129. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
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  131. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
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  133. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
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  135. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  136. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  137. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  138. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
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  141. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
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  145. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  146. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  147. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  148. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  149. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
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