Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Hamilton?

American Founding Father and statesman

Alexander Hamilton lived 1757–1804. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1757–1804
Lifespan: about 47 years
Born in, as it was then: CharlestownColony of Nevis, British West Indies
On today’s map: Saint Kitts and Nevis

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When Alexander Hamilton was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already about 1 years old.
Alexander Hamilton was about 12 when Napoleon was born.
Alexander Hamilton and Ludwig van Beethoven (German composer) shared about 34 years on Earth, one born in the Colony of Nevis, British West Indies and the other in the Holy Roman Empire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe outlived Alexander Hamilton by about 28 years.

Famous contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton

Rulers and commanders

Napoleon 1769–1821 · 35 yrs shared
Marie Antoinette 1755–1793 · 36 yrs shared
Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 · 33 yrs shared
George Washington 1732–1799 · 42 yrs shared
Louis XVI 1754–1793 · 36 yrs shared
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 · 47 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Immanuel Kant 1724–1804 · 47 yrs shared
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778 · 21 yrs shared
Adam Smith 1723–1790 · 33 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 27 yrs shared
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831 · 34 yrs shared
Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778 · 21 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 · 34 yrs shared
Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770–1827 · 34 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 47 yrs shared
Voltaire 1694–1778 · 21 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 2 yrs shared
Francisco Goya 1746–1828 · 47 yrs shared

Explorers and others

James Cook 1728–1779 · 22 yrs shared

Born within five years of Alexander Hamilton

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756) · Marie Antoinette (1755) · Louis XVI (1754) · Friedrich Schiller (1759) · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758) · William Blake (1757) · Hokusai (1760) · Maximilien Robespierre (1758)

About Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1789.

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