Who Was Alive

Marie Antoinette

Last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution

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

Who was alive at the same time as Marie Antoinette?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Marie Antoinette
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Katsushika Hokusai
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Marie Antoinette was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 6, George Washington was 23, Voltaire was 60, Immanuel Kant was 31 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 43.

When Marie Antoinette died, Napoleon was 24, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44, George Washington was 61, Immanuel Kant was 69 and Thomas Jefferson was 50.

Born during Marie Antoinette’s lifetime: Napoleon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schiller.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born 9 years after Marie Antoinette died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 5 years before Marie Antoinette was born, Alexander Pushkin was born 6 years after Marie Antoinette died and Hans Christian Andersen was born 12 years after Marie Antoinette died.

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All 128 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  23. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  38. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  39. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  40. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  41. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  42. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  43. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  44. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  45. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  46. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  47. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  48. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  49. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  50. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  51. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  52. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  53. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  55. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  56. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  57. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  58. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  60. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  61. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  62. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  63. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  64. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  65. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  66. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  67. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  68. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  69. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  70. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  71. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  72. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  73. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  74. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  75. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  76. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  77. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  78. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  79. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  80. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  81. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  82. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  83. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  84. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  85. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  86. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  87. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  88. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  89. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  90. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  91. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  92. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  93. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  94. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  95. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  96. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  97. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  98. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  99. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  100. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  101. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  102. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  103. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  104. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  105. William IV 1765 – 1837
  106. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  107. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  108. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  109. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  110. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  111. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  112. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  113. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  114. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  115. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  116. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  117. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  118. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  119. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  120. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  121. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  122. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  123. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  124. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  125. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  126. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  127. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  128. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817