Who Was Alive

Were Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Napoleon alive at the same time?

Yes. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Napoleon were alive at the same time for 51 years, from 1769 to 1821.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was under a year old when Napoleon was born.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was 52 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

Born 1 May 1769 · died 14 September 1852, aged 83

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  4. Napoleon
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Napoleon in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.