Who Was Alive

Napoleon III

President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France

Born 20 April 1808 · died 9 January 1873, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Napoleon III?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  7. Hans Christian Andersen
  8. Napoleon III
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Charles Dickens
  12. Karl Marx
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Leo Tolstoy
  15. Mark Twain
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Thomas Edison
  18. Vincent van Gogh
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Anton Chekhov
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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 Napoleon III was born, Napoleon was 38, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 58, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 8 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

When Napoleon III died, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during Napoleon III’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 6 years after Napoleon III died, Joseph Stalin was born 5 years after Napoleon III died, George Washington died 9 years before Napoleon III was born and Pablo Picasso was born 8 years after Napoleon III died.

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All 396 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  36. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  37. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  38. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  39. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  40. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  41. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  45. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  46. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  47. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  48. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  49. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  50. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  51. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  53. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  54. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  55. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  56. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  57. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  58. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  60. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  61. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  62. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  69. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  70. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  71. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  72. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  73. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  74. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  75. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  76. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  77. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  78. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  79. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  80. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  81. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  82. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  83. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  84. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  85. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  86. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  87. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  88. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  89. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  90. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  91. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  92. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  93. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  94. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  95. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  96. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  97. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  98. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  99. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  100. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  101. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  102. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  103. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  104. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  105. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  106. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  107. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  108. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  109. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  110. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  111. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  112. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  113. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  114. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  115. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  116. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  117. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  118. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  119. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  120. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  121. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  122. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  123. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  124. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  125. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  126. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  127. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  128. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  129. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  130. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  131. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  132. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  133. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  134. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  135. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  136. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  137. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  138. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  139. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  140. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  141. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  142. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  143. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  144. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  145. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  146. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  147. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  148. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  149. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  150. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884

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