Who Was Alive

Were Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 49 years, from 1749 to 1799.

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais was 17 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49 when Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais died, aged 67.

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

French playwright, diplomat and polymath

Born 24 January 1732 · died 18 May 1799, aged 67

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.