Who Was Alive

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist

Born 26 August 1743 · died 8 May 1794, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Antoine Lavoisier?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. George Washington
  11. John Adams
  12. Thomas Jefferson
  13. Antoine Lavoisier
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Friedrich Schiller
  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 Antoine Lavoisier was born, George Washington was 11, Johann Sebastian Bach was 58, Voltaire was 48, Immanuel Kant was 19 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 31.

When Antoine Lavoisier died, Napoleon was 24, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44, George Washington was 62, Immanuel Kant was 70 and Thomas Jefferson was 51.

Born during Antoine Lavoisier’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 15 years after Antoine Lavoisier died, Charles Darwin was born 15 years after Antoine Lavoisier died, Victor Hugo was born 8 years after Antoine Lavoisier died and Alexander Pushkin was born 5 years after Antoine Lavoisier died.

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  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
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