Who Was Alive

Were Giacomo Casanova and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Giacomo Casanova and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 48 years, from 1749 to 1798.

Giacomo Casanova was 24 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48 when Giacomo Casanova died, aged 73.

Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer

Born 2 April 1725 · died 4 June 1798, aged 73

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Giacomo Casanova
  3. George Washington
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Giacomo Casanova and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.