Who Was Alive

Marquis de Sade

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works

Born 2 June 1740 · died 2 December 1814, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Marquis de Sade?

  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. Marquis de Sade
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven
  14. Napoleon
  15. Jane Austen
  16. Lord Byron
  17. Alexander Pushkin
  18. Victor Hugo
  19. Hans Christian Andersen
  20. Edgar Allan Poe
  21. Abraham Lincoln
  22. Charles Darwin
  23. Charles Dickens
  24. Richard Wagner
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Marquis de Sade was born, George Washington was 8, Johann Sebastian Bach was 55, Voltaire was 45, Immanuel Kant was 16 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 27.

When Marquis de Sade died, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 45, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 65 and Victor Hugo was 12.

Born during Marquis de Sade’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 4 years after Marquis de Sade died, Isaac Newton died 13 years before Marquis de Sade was born, Leo Tolstoy was born 14 years after Marquis de Sade died and Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 7 years after Marquis de Sade died.

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  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
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  29. James Cook 1728 – 1779
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