Peninsular War 1808–1814

Belligerents: Kingdom of Portugal, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, First French Empire, Kingdom of Spain, Spain under Joseph Bonaparte

Who lived through the Peninsular War

Well-known people alive during 1808–1814:

• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
• Napoleon (1769–1821) — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) — German composer (1770-1827)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
• Lord Byron (1788–1824) — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817) — English novelist (1775–1817)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) — British scientist (1791–1867)
• Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) — Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
• James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) — German philosopher (1788-1860)
• Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) — French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828) — Austrian composer (1797–1828)

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