Who Was Alive

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman

Born 11 January 1757 · died 12 July 1804, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Hamilton?

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Alexander Hamilton
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven
  18. Napoleon
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Alexander Pushkin
  24. Victor Hugo
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When Alexander Hamilton was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 7, George Washington was 24, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was under a year old, Voltaire was 62 and Immanuel Kant was 32.

When Alexander Hamilton died, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

Born during Alexander Hamilton’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 14 years after Alexander Hamilton died, Abraham Lincoln was born 5 years after Alexander Hamilton died, Charles Darwin was born 5 years after Alexander Hamilton died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 7 years before Alexander Hamilton was born.

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  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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  25. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  30. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  31. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  32. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  33. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  34. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  35. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  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 II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  43. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  44. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  47. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  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. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  57. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  58. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  59. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  60. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  61. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  62. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  63. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  64. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  65. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  66. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  67. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  68. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  69. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  70. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  71. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  72. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  73. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  74. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  75. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  76. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  77. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  78. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  79. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  80. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  81. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  82. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  83. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  84. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  85. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  86. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  87. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  88. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  89. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  90. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  91. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  92. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  93. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  94. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  95. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  96. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  97. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  98. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  99. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  100. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  101. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  102. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  103. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  104. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  105. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  106. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  107. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  108. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  109. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  110. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  111. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  112. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  113. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  114. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  115. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  116. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  117. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  118. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  119. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  120. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  121. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  122. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  123. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  124. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  125. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  126. William IV 1765 – 1837
  127. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  128. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  129. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  130. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  131. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  132. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  133. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  134. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  135. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  136. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  137. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  138. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  139. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  140. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  141. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  142. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  143. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  144. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  145. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  146. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  147. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  148. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  149. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  150. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810

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