Who Was Alive

Were Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Napoleon alive at the same time?

Yes. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Napoleon were alive at the same time for 14 years, from 1769 to 1783.

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was 51 when Napoleon was born.

Napoleon was 14 when Jean Le Rond d'Alembert died, aged 65.

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

Born 16 November 1717 · died 29 October 1783, aged 65

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
  3. George Washington
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Napoleon in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.