Who Was Alive

Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and intellectual

Born 27 April 1759 · died 10 September 1797, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Mary Wollstonecraft?

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Mary Wollstonecraft
  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 Mary Wollstonecraft was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 35.

When Mary Wollstonecraft died, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

Born during Mary Wollstonecraft’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schiller and Michael Faraday.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 12 years after Mary Wollstonecraft died, Charles Darwin was born 12 years after Mary Wollstonecraft died, Victor Hugo was born 5 years after Mary Wollstonecraft died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 9 years before Mary Wollstonecraft was born.

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  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. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  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 Keats 1795 – 1821
  41. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  42. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  43. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  44. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  45. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  46. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  47. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  48. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  49. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  50. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  51. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  52. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  53. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  54. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  55. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  56. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  58. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  59. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  60. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  61. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  62. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  63. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  64. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  65. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  66. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  67. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  68. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  69. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  70. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  71. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  72. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  73. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  74. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  75. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  76. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  77. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  78. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
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  80. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
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  83. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  84. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  85. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
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  94. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
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  105. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  106. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  107. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
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  109. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  110. William IV 1765 – 1837
  111. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  112. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  113. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  114. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  115. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  116. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  117. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  118. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  119. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
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  123. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  124. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  125. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  126. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  127. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  128. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  129. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  130. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  131. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  132. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  133. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817