Who Was Alive
Tipu Sultan
Anonymous artist from Mysore, India., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tipu Sultan

Sultan of Mysore

Born 1751 · died 4 May 1799, aged 47
Also known as Tippoo Sahib, Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, Tipu Sahab

Who was alive at the same time as Tipu Sultan?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  9. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  10. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  11. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  12. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  14. Tipu Sultan, 1751 – 1799
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  16. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  17. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Tipu Sultan was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 2, George Washington was 19, Voltaire was 56 or 57, Immanuel Kant was 27 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 39.

When Tipu Sultan died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

Born during Tipu Sultan’s lifetime: Napoleon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schiller.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 10 years after Tipu Sultan died, Charles Darwin was born about 10 years after Tipu Sultan died, Victor Hugo was born about 3 years after Tipu Sultan died and Johann Sebastian Bach died about a year before Tipu Sultan was born.

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Where Tipu Sultan’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

347 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tipu Sultan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1775.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  28. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  37. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  38. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  41. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  42. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  43. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  44. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  45. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  46. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  47. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  48. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  49. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  50. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  51. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  52. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  53. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  54. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  55. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  56. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  57. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  58. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  59. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  60. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  61. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  62. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  63. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  64. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  65. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  66. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  67. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  68. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  69. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  70. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  71. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  72. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  73. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  74. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  75. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  76. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  77. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  78. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  79. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  80. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  81. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  82. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  83. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  84. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  85. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  86. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  87. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  88. George III 1738 – 1820
  89. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  90. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  91. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  92. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  93. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  94. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  95. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  96. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  97. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  98. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  99. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  100. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  101. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  102. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  103. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  104. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  105. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  106. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  107. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  108. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  109. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  110. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  111. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  112. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  113. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  114. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  115. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  116. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  117. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  118. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  119. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  120. William IV 1765 – 1837
  121. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  122. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  123. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  124. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  125. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  126. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  127. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  128. George IV 1762 – 1830
  129. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  130. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  131. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  132. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  133. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  134. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  135. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  136. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  137. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  138. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  139. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  140. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  141. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  142. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  143. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  144. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  145. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  146. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  147. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  148. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  149. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  150. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835