Who Was Alive

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer of the Classical period

Born 27 January 1756 · died 5 December 1791, aged 35

Who was alive at the same time as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. James Madison
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Katsushika Hokusai
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 6, George Washington was 23, Voltaire was 61, Immanuel Kant was 31 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 43.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Immanuel Kant was 67 and Thomas Jefferson was 48.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born 11 years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 6 years before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born, Alexander Pushkin was born 8 years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died and Hans Christian Andersen was born 14 years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died.

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All 123 contemporaries we track

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