Who Was Alive

Gregory XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846

Born 18 September 1765 · died 1 June 1846, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Gregory XVI?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Immanuel Kant
  5. George Washington
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  9. Gregory XVI
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven
  11. Napoleon
  12. Lord Byron
  13. Alexander Pushkin
  14. Victor Hugo
  15. Hans Christian Andersen
  16. Edgar Allan Poe
  17. Abraham Lincoln
  18. Charles Darwin
  19. Charles Dickens
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Leo Tolstoy
  23. Mark Twain
  24. Friedrich Nietzsche
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When Gregory XVI was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 16, George Washington was 33, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 9, Voltaire was 70 and Immanuel Kant was 41.

When Gregory XVI died, Karl Marx was 28, Abraham Lincoln was 37, Leo Tolstoy was 17, Charles Darwin was 37 and Victor Hugo was 44.

Born during Gregory XVI’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 7 years after Gregory XVI died, Thomas Edison was born about a year after Gregory XVI died, Sigmund Freud was born 10 years after Gregory XVI died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 15 years after Gregory XVI died.

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All 303 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  26. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  27. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  28. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  29. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  47. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  62. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  65. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  66. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  67. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  68. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  69. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  70. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  71. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  74. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  75. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  76. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  77. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  78. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  79. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  80. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  81. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  82. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  83. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  84. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  85. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  86. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  87. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  88. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  89. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  90. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  91. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  92. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  93. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  94. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  95. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  96. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  97. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  98. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  99. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  100. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  101. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  102. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  103. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  104. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  105. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  106. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  107. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  108. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  109. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  110. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  111. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  112. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  113. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  114. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  115. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  116. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  117. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  118. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  119. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  120. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  121. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  122. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  123. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  124. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  125. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  126. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  127. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  128. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  129. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  130. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  131. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  132. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  133. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  134. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  135. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  136. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  137. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  138. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  139. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  140. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  141. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  142. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  143. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  144. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  145. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  146. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  147. William James 1842 – 1910
  148. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  149. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  150. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907

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