Who Was Alive

Horatio Nelson

British admiral

Born 29 September 1758 · died 21 October 1805, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Horatio Nelson?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Horatio Nelson
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven
  17. Napoleon
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  19. Jane Austen
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  21. Lord Byron
  22. Alexander Pushkin
  23. Victor Hugo
  24. Hans Christian Andersen
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When Horatio Nelson was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 26, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 2, Voltaire was 63 and Immanuel Kant was 34.

When Horatio Nelson died, Napoleon was 36, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 6 and Hans Christian Andersen was under a year old.

Born during Horatio Nelson’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 13 years after Horatio Nelson died, Abraham Lincoln was born 4 years after Horatio Nelson died, Charles Darwin was born 4 years after Horatio Nelson died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 8 years before Horatio Nelson was born.

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  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  10. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  26. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  29. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  31. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  32. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  33. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  34. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  35. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  36. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  37. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  38. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  39. David Hume 1711 – 1776
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  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
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  45. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
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  48. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  49. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  50. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  51. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
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  53. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  54. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  55. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  56. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  57. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  58. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  59. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  60. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  61. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  62. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  63. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  64. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  65. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  66. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  67. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  68. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  69. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  70. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  71. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  72. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  73. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  74. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  75. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  76. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  77. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  78. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  79. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  80. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  81. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
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