Who Was Alive

William Blake

English poet and artist

Born 28 November 1757 · died 12 August 1827, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as William Blake?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. William Blake
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven
  13. Napoleon
  14. Lord Byron
  15. Alexander Pushkin
  16. Victor Hugo
  17. Hans Christian Andersen
  18. Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Abraham Lincoln
  20. Charles Darwin
  21. Charles Dickens
  22. Otto von Bismarck
  23. Karl Marx
  24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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When William Blake was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 8, George Washington was 25, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 1, Voltaire was 63 and Immanuel Kant was 33.

When William Blake died, Karl Marx was 9, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 25.

Born during William Blake’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about a year after William Blake died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 7 years before William Blake was born, Mark Twain was born 8 years after William Blake died and Alfred Nobel was born 6 years after William Blake died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  32. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  33. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  43. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  44. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
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  48. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  49. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  52. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  53. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  54. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  55. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  56. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  57. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  59. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  60. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  61. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  62. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  63. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  64. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  65. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  66. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  67. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
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  69. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  70. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  71. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  72. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  73. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  74. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  75. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  76. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  77. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  78. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  79. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  80. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  81. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  82. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
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  84. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
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  93. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
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  95. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  96. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
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  100. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
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  108. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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  110. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  111. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
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  115. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
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  117. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  118. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  119. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  120. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  121. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
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  129. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  130. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
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  132. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
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  134. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
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  139. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
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