Who Was Alive

André-Marie Ampère

French physicist and mathematician

Born 20 January 1775 · died 10 June 1836, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as André-Marie Ampère?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Immanuel Kant
  5. George Washington
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven
  10. Napoleon
  11. André-Marie Ampère
  12. Lord Byron
  13. Alexander Pushkin
  14. Victor Hugo
  15. Hans Christian Andersen
  16. Edgar Allan Poe
  17. Abraham Lincoln
  18. Charles Darwin
  19. Charles Dickens
  20. Otto von Bismarck
  21. Karl Marx
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Leo Tolstoy
  24. Mark Twain
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When André-Marie Ampère was born, Napoleon was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 25, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 80.

When André-Marie Ampère died, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 34.

Born during André-Marie Ampère’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born 8 years after André-Marie Ampère died, Thomas Edison was born 11 years after André-Marie Ampère died, Sarah Bernhardt was born 8 years after André-Marie Ampère died and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born 4 years after André-Marie Ampère died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  25. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
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  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
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