Who Was Alive

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Mathematician and astronomer

Born 25 January 1736 · died 10 April 1813, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph-Louis Lagrange?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven
  14. Napoleon
  15. Jane Austen
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  17. Lord Byron
  18. Alexander Pushkin
  19. Victor Hugo
  20. Hans Christian Andersen
  21. Edgar Allan Poe
  22. Abraham Lincoln
  23. Charles Darwin
  24. Charles Dickens
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When Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born, George Washington was 3, Johann Sebastian Bach was 50, Voltaire was 41, Immanuel Kant was 11 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 23.

When Joseph-Louis Lagrange died, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

Born during Joseph-Louis Lagrange’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 5 years after Joseph-Louis Lagrange died, Isaac Newton died 9 years before Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 8 years after Joseph-Louis Lagrange died and Otto von Bismarck was born 2 years after Joseph-Louis Lagrange died.

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  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
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  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
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  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
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  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
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  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
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  21. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
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  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
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