Who Was Alive

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Born 22 April 1724 · died 12 February 1804, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as Immanuel Kant?

  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. James Cook
  11. George Washington
  12. John Adams
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven
  18. Napoleon
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Alexander Pushkin
  24. Victor Hugo
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When Immanuel Kant was born, Isaac Newton was 81, Johann Sebastian Bach was 39, Voltaire was 29, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 11 and Adam Smith was under a year old.

When Immanuel Kant died, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 1, Alexander Pushkin was 4 and Thomas Jefferson was 60.

Born during Immanuel Kant’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 14 years after Immanuel Kant died, Abraham Lincoln was born 5 years after Immanuel Kant died, Charles Darwin was born 5 years after Immanuel Kant died and Charles Dickens was born 8 years after Immanuel Kant died.

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  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  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. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  27. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  30. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  31. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  32. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  33. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  34. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  35. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  36. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  37. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  38. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  39. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  40. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  41. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  42. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  43. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  44. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  45. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  46. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  47. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  48. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  49. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  50. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  51. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  52. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  53. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  54. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  55. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  56. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  57. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  58. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  59. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  60. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  61. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  62. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  63. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  64. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  65. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  66. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  67. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  68. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  69. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  70. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  71. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  72. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  73. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  74. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  75. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  76. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  77. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  78. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  79. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  80. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  81. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  82. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  83. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  84. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  85. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  86. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  87. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  88. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  89. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  90. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  91. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  92. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  93. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  94. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  95. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  96. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
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  98. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
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  100. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  101. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  102. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  103. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  104. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  105. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  106. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  107. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  108. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  109. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  110. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  111. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  112. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  113. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  114. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  115. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  116. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  117. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  118. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  119. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  120. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  121. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  122. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  123. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
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  125. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  126. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  127. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  128. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  129. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  130. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  131. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  132. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  133. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  134. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  135. William IV 1765 – 1837
  136. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  137. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  138. Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
  139. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  140. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  141. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  142. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  143. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  144. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  145. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  146. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  147. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  148. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  149. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  150. Leo XII 1760 – 1829

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