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Ugo Foscolo
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Ugo Foscolo

Venetian writer

Born 6 February 1778 · died 10 September 1827, aged 49
Also known as Niccolò Foscolo, Didimo Chierico

Who was alive at the same time as Ugo Foscolo?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  12. Ugo Foscolo, 1778 – 1827
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  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 Ugo Foscolo was born, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 and Voltaire was 83.

When Ugo Foscolo died, Karl Marx was 9, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 78 and Victor Hugo was 25.

Born during Ugo Foscolo’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 a year after Ugo Foscolo died, Mark Twain was born about 8 years after Ugo Foscolo died, Carl Linnaeus died months before Ugo Foscolo was born and Alfred Nobel was born about 6 years after Ugo Foscolo died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

507 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ugo Foscolo. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1803.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  33. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  34. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  39. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  40. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  41. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  43. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  44. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  45. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  46. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  50. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  53. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  54. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  55. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  56. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  58. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  61. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  62. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  63. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  64. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  65. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  66. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  67. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  68. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  69. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  70. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  71. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  73. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  74. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  75. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  76. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  77. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  78. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  79. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  80. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  81. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  82. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  83. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  84. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  85. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  86. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  87. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  88. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  89. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  90. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  91. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  92. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  93. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  94. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  95. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  96. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  97. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  98. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  99. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  100. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  101. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  102. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  103. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  104. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  105. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  106. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  107. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  108. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  109. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  110. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  111. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  112. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  113. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  114. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  115. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  116. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  117. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  118. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  119. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  120. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  121. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  122. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  123. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  124. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  125. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  126. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  127. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  128. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  129. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  130. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  131. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  132. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  133. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  134. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  135. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  136. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  137. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  138. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  139. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  140. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  141. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  142. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  143. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  144. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  145. George III 1738 – 1820
  146. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  147. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  148. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  149. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  150. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781