Who Was Alive

Were Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Napoleon alive at the same time?

Yes. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Napoleon were alive at the same time for 29 years, from 1769 to 1799.

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais was 37 when Napoleon was born.

Napoleon was 29 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

Napoleon

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

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

  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
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Napoleon 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.