Who Was Alive

Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer

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

Who was alive at the same time as Giacomo Casanova?

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach
  3. Voltaire
  4. Benjamin Franklin
  5. Leonhard Euler
  6. Carl Linnaeus
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  8. Adam Smith
  9. Immanuel Kant
  10. Giacomo Casanova
  11. James Cook
  12. George Washington
  13. John Adams
  14. Thomas Jefferson
  15. Francisco Goya
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  18. Friedrich Schiller
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven
  20. Napoleon
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  22. Jane Austen
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  24. Lord Byron
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When Giacomo Casanova was born, Isaac Newton was 82, Johann Sebastian Bach was 40, Voltaire was 30, Immanuel Kant was under a year old and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 12.

When Giacomo Casanova died, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

Born during Giacomo Casanova’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 11 years after Giacomo Casanova died, Charles Darwin was born 11 years after Giacomo Casanova died, Victor Hugo was born 4 years after Giacomo Casanova died and Charles Dickens was born 14 years after Giacomo Casanova died.

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  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  25. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
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