Who Was Alive

Isabelle de Charrière

Dutch French-language writer and composer

Born 20 October 1740 · died 27 December 1805, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Isabelle de Charrière?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. George Washington
  11. John Adams
  12. Isabelle de Charrière
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  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 Isabelle de Charrière was born, George Washington was 8, Johann Sebastian Bach was 55, Voltaire was 45, Immanuel Kant was 16 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 28.

When Isabelle de Charrière 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 Isabelle de Charrière’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 13 years after Isabelle de Charrière died, Isaac Newton died 13 years before Isabelle de Charrière was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 4 years after Isabelle de Charrière died and Charles Darwin was born 4 years after Isabelle de Charrière died.

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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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  11. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  17. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  21. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  22. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  23. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  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
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  50. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  51. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  52. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  53. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  54. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  55. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  56. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
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  65. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
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  68. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  69. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  70. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  71. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
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  76. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
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