Who Was Alive

Paul I of Russia

The ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801

Born 20 September 1754 (Julian calendar) · died 11–12 March 1801 (Julian calendar), aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Paul I of Russia?

  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. Paul I of Russia
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven
  18. Napoleon
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Michael Faraday
  24. Alexander Pushkin
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When Paul I of Russia was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 5, George Washington was 22, Voltaire was 59, Immanuel Kant was 30 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 42.

When Paul I of Russia died, Napoleon was 31, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 51, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was 1 and Thomas Jefferson was 57.

Born during Paul I of Russia’s lifetime: Napoleon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Pushkin, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 8 years after Paul I of Russia died, Charles Darwin was born 8 years after Paul I of Russia died, Victor Hugo was born about a year after Paul I of Russia died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 4 years before Paul I of Russia was born.

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All 144 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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  30. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  43. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  44. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  45. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  46. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  47. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  48. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  49. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  50. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  51. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  52. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  53. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  54. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  55. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  56. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  57. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  58. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  59. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  60. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  61. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  62. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  63. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  64. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  65. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  66. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  67. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  68. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  69. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  70. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  71. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  72. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  73. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  74. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  75. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  76. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  77. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  78. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  79. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  80. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  81. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  82. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  83. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  84. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  85. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  86. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  87. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  88. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  89. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  90. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  91. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  92. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  93. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  94. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  95. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  96. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  97. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  98. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  99. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  100. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  101. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  102. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  103. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  104. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  105. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  106. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  107. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  108. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  109. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  110. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  111. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  112. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  113. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  114. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  115. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  116. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  117. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  118. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  119. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  120. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  121. William IV 1765 – 1837
  122. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  123. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  124. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  125. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  126. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  127. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  128. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  129. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  130. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  131. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  132. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  133. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  134. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  135. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  136. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  137. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  138. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  139. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  140. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  141. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  142. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  143. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  144. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817