Who Was Alive

Giacomo Leopardi

Italian noble, poet, philosopher, and writer

Born 29 June 1798 · died 14 June 1837, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Giacomo Leopardi?

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

When Giacomo Leopardi died, Karl Marx was 19, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

Born during Giacomo Leopardi’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 7 years before Giacomo Leopardi was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 7 years after Giacomo Leopardi died, Thomas Edison was born 10 years after Giacomo Leopardi died and Adam Smith died 8 years before Giacomo Leopardi was born.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  31. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  32. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  33. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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