Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Horatio Nelson alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Horatio Nelson were alive at the same time for 47 years, from 1758 to 1805.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9 when Horatio Nelson was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56 when Horatio Nelson died, aged 47.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

Horatio Nelson

British admiral

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

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. Horatio Nelson
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Horatio Nelson 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.