Who Was Alive

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

Born 16 December 1775 · died 18 July 1817, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Jane Austen?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. Jane Austen
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  15. Lord Byron
  16. Alexander Pushkin
  17. Victor Hugo
  18. Hans Christian Andersen
  19. Edgar Allan Poe
  20. Abraham Lincoln
  21. Charles Darwin
  22. Charles Dickens
  23. Richard Wagner
  24. Otto von Bismarck
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When Jane Austen was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 43, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 19 and Voltaire was 81.

When Jane Austen died, Abraham Lincoln was 8, Napoleon was 47, Charles Darwin was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 and Victor Hugo was 15.

Born during Jane Austen’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Byron.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about a year after Jane Austen died, Leo Tolstoy was born 11 years after Jane Austen died, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 4 years after Jane Austen died and Louis Pasteur was born 5 years after Jane Austen died.

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All 193 contemporaries we track

  1. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  37. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  38. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  39. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  40. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  41. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  42. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  43. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  44. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  45. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  46. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  47. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  48. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  49. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  50. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  51. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  52. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  53. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  54. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  55. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  56. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  57. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  58. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  59. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  60. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  61. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  62. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  63. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  64. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  65. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  66. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  67. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  68. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  69. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  70. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  71. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  72. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  73. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  74. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  75. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  76. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  77. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  78. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  79. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  80. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  81. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  82. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  83. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  84. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  85. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  86. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  87. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  88. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  89. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  90. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  91. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  92. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  93. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  94. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  95. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  96. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  97. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  98. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  99. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  100. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  101. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  102. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  103. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  104. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  105. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  106. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  107. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  108. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  109. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  110. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  111. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  112. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  113. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  114. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  115. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  116. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  117. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  118. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  119. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  120. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  121. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  122. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  123. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  124. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  125. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  126. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  127. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  128. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  129. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  130. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  131. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  132. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  133. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  134. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  135. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  136. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  137. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  138. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  139. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  140. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  141. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  142. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  143. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  144. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  145. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  146. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  147. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  148. David Livingstone 1813 – 1873
  149. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  150. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828

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