Who Was Alive

Were Samuel Johnson and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Samuel Johnson and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 35 years, from 1749 to 1784.

Samuel Johnson was 39 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35 when Samuel Johnson died, aged 75.

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer

Born 18 September 1709 · died 13 December 1784, aged 75

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Samuel Johnson
  3. George Washington
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Samuel Johnson and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.