Who Was Alive

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian

Born 4 September 1768 · died 4 July 1848, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand?

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When François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 19, George Washington was 36, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 12, Voltaire was 73 and Immanuel Kant was 44.

When François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died, Karl Marx was 30, Abraham Lincoln was 39, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 39 and Victor Hugo was 46.

Born during François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 5 years after François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died, Sigmund Freud was born 8 years after François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died, Rabindranath Tagore was born 13 years after François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died and Anton Chekhov was born 12 years after François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  25. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  26. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  27. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  32. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  33. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  34. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  35. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  36. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  37. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  38. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  42. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  43. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  60. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  61. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
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  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  69. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  70. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
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  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  81. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
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