Who Was Alive

Were Pierre-Simon Laplace and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Pierre-Simon Laplace and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 8 years, from 1818 to 1827.

Pierre-Simon Laplace was 69 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 8 when Pierre-Simon Laplace died, aged 77.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer

Born 23 March 1749 · died 5 March 1827, aged 77

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

Born 5 May 1818 · died 14 March 1883, aged 64

  1. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Pierre-Simon Laplace and Karl Marx 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.