Who was alive at the same time as George III?

King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820

George III lived 1738–1820. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1738–1820
Lifespan: about 82 years
Born in, as it was then: LondonKingdom of Great Britain
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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Did you know?

When George III was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was already about 53 years old.
George III was about 18 when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.
George III and Napoleon (French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815) shared about 51 years on Earth, one born in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the other in the Kingdom of France.
Ludwig van Beethoven outlived George III by about 7 years.

Famous contemporaries of George III

Rulers and commanders

Napoleon 1769–1821 · 51 yrs shared
Marie Antoinette 1755–1793 · 38 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 5 yrs shared
Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 · 52 yrs shared
George Washington 1732–1799 · 61 yrs shared
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 · 11 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 2 yrs shared
Immanuel Kant 1724–1804 · 66 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 11 yrs shared
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778 · 40 yrs shared
Adam Smith 1723–1790 · 52 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 43 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 · 35 yrs shared
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 · 12 yrs shared
Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770–1827 · 50 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 71 yrs shared
Voltaire 1694–1778 · 40 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 18 yrs shared

Explorers and others

James Cook 1728–1779 · 41 yrs shared

Born within five years of George III

James Watt (1736) · Marquis de Sade (1740) · Thomas Jefferson (1743) · Antoine Lavoisier (1743) · Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736) · Jean-Paul Marat (1743) · Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736) · William Herschel (1738)

About George III

George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

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