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Yemelyan Pugachev
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Yemelyan Pugachev

Russian soldier

Born 1742 · died 10 January 1775 (Julian calendar), aged 32 or 33
Also known as Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, Yemelyan Pugachyov

Who was alive at the same time as Yemelyan Pugachev?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Yemelyan Pugachev, 1742 – 1775
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  20. Andrew Jackson, 1767 – 1845
  21. John Quincy Adams, 1767 – 1848
  22. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Yemelyan Pugachev was born, George Washington was 9 or 10, Johann Sebastian Bach was 56 or 57, Voltaire was 47 or 48, Immanuel Kant was 17 or 18 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 29 or 30.

When Yemelyan Pugachev died, Napoleon was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 25, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 80.

Born during Yemelyan Pugachev’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Francisco Goya and Friedrich Schiller.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 15 years before Yemelyan Pugachev was born, Lord Byron was born about 13 years after Yemelyan Pugachev died, Jane Austen was born months after Yemelyan Pugachev died and Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 2 years after Yemelyan Pugachev died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

246 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Yemelyan Pugachev. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1759.

  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  17. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  18. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  21. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  22. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  23. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  35. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  36. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  37. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  38. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  39. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  40. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  41. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  42. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  43. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  44. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  45. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  46. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  47. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  48. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  49. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  50. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  51. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  52. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  53. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  54. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  55. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  56. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  57. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  58. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  59. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  60. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  61. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  62. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  63. George III 1738 – 1820
  64. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  65. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  66. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  67. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  68. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  69. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  70. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  71. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  72. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  73. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  74. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  75. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  77. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  78. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  79. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  80. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  81. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  82. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  83. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  84. William IV 1765 – 1837
  85. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  86. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  87. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  88. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  89. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  90. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  91. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  92. George IV 1762 – 1830
  93. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  94. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  95. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  96. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  97. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  98. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  99. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  100. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  101. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  102. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  103. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  104. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  105. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  106. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  107. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  108. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  109. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  110. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  111. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  112. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  113. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  114. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  115. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  116. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  117. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  118. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  119. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  120. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  121. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  122. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  123. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  124. Louis Philippe I 1773 – 1850
  125. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  126. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  127. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  128. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  129. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  130. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  131. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  132. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  133. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  134. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  135. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  136. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  137. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  138. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  139. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  140. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  141. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  142. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  143. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  144. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  145. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  146. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  147. Charles Fourier 1772 – 1837
  148. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  149. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  150. Selim III 1761 – 1808