Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marie Antoinette alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marie Antoinette were alive at the same time for 37 years, from 1755 to 1793.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 6 when Marie Antoinette was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44 when Marie Antoinette died, aged 37.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

Marie Antoinette

Last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution

Born 2 November 1755 · died 16 October 1793, aged 37

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