Who Was Alive

Edward Gibbon

English historian and politician

Born 8 May 1737 · died 16 January 1794, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Edward Gibbon?

  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. Edward Gibbon
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  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 Edward Gibbon was born, George Washington was 5, Johann Sebastian Bach was 52, Voltaire was 42, Immanuel Kant was 13 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 24.

When Edward Gibbon died, Napoleon was 24, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44, George Washington was 61, Immanuel Kant was 69 and Thomas Jefferson was 50.

Born during Edward Gibbon’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 10 years before Edward Gibbon was born, Victor Hugo was born 8 years after Edward Gibbon died, Alexander Pushkin was born 5 years after Edward Gibbon died and Hans Christian Andersen was born 11 years after Edward Gibbon 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. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
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  54. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  55. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  56. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
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  58. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
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  61. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
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  65. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  66. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  67. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  68. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  69. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  70. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  71. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
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  75. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
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