Who Was Alive

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

French playwright, diplomat and polymath

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

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
  11. George Washington
  12. John Adams
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Friedrich Schiller
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven
  19. Napoleon
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  21. Jane Austen
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  23. Lord Byron
  24. Michael Faraday
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When Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 46, Voltaire was 37, Immanuel Kant was 7, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 19 and Adam Smith was 8.

When Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

Born during Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died 5 years before Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais was born, Abraham Lincoln was born 10 years after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais died, Charles Darwin was born 10 years after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais died and Victor Hugo was born 3 years after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais died.

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  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. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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
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  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
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