Who Was Alive

Robert Burns

Scottish poet and lyricist

Born 25 January 1759 · died 21 July 1796, aged 37

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Burns?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Robert Burns
  16. Friedrich Schiller
  17. Katsushika Hokusai
  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 Robert Burns was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9, George Washington was 26, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 2, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 34.

When Robert Burns died, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 64, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

Born during Robert Burns’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schiller and Michael Faraday.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 13 years after Robert Burns died, Charles Darwin was born 13 years after Robert Burns died, Victor Hugo was born 6 years after Robert Burns died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 9 years before Robert Burns was born.

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All 131 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  23. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  31. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  32. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  33. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  34. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  35. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  36. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  37. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  38. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  39. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  40. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  41. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  42. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  43. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  44. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  45. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  46. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  47. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  48. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  49. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  50. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  51. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  52. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  53. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  54. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  55. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  56. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  58. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  59. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  60. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  61. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  62. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  63. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  64. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  65. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  66. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  67. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  68. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  69. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  70. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  71. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  72. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  73. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  74. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  75. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  76. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  77. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  78. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  79. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  80. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  81. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  82. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  83. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  84. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  85. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  86. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  87. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  88. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  89. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  90. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  91. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  92. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  93. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  94. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  95. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  96. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  97. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  98. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  99. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  100. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  101. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  102. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  103. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  104. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  105. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  106. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  107. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  108. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  109. William IV 1765 – 1837
  110. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  111. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  112. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  113. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  114. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  115. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  116. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  117. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  118. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  119. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  120. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  121. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  122. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  123. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  124. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  125. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  126. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  127. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  128. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  129. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  130. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  131. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817