Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and James Fenimore Cooper alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and James Fenimore Cooper were alive at the same time for 31 years, from 1789 to 1821.

Napoleon was 20 when James Fenimore Cooper was born.

James Fenimore Cooper was 31 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer

Born 15 September 1789 · died 14 September 1851, aged 61

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. James Fenimore Cooper
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Napoleon and James Fenimore Cooper 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.