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William Pitt the Younger
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William Pitt the Younger

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Born 28 May 1759 · died 23 January 1806, aged 46
Also known as Pitt the Younger

Who was alive at the same time as William Pitt the Younger?

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  15. William Pitt the Younger, 1759 – 1806
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  17. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  19. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  21. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  22. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  23. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  24. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875

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When William Pitt the Younger was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 35.

When William Pitt the Younger died, Napoleon was 36, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 6 and Hans Christian Andersen was under a year old.

Born during William Pitt the Younger’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about 12 years after William Pitt the Younger died, Abraham Lincoln was born about 3 years after William Pitt the Younger died, Charles Darwin was born about 3 years after William Pitt the Younger died and Johann Sebastian Bach died about 9 years before William Pitt the Younger was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

381 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as William Pitt the Younger. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1783.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  10. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  32. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  42. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  43. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  44. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  45. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  46. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  47. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  48. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  49. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  50. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  51. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  52. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  53. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  54. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  55. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  56. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  57. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  58. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  59. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  60. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  61. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  62. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  63. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  64. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  65. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  66. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  67. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  68. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  69. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  70. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  71. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  72. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  73. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  74. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  75. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  76. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  77. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  78. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  79. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  80. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  81. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  82. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  83. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  84. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  85. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  86. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  87. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  88. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  89. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  90. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  91. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  92. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  93. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  94. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  95. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  96. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  97. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  98. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  99. George III 1738 – 1820
  100. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  101. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  102. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  103. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  104. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  105. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  106. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  107. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  108. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  109. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  110. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  111. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  112. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  113. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  114. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  115. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  116. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  117. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  118. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  119. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  120. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  121. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  122. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  123. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  124. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  125. Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
  126. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  127. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  128. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  129. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  130. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  131. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  132. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  133. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  134. William IV 1765 – 1837
  135. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  136. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  137. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  138. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  139. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  140. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  141. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  142. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  143. George IV 1762 – 1830
  144. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  145. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  146. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  147. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  148. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  149. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  150. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822