Who Was Alive

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician

Born 10 December 1815 · died 27 November 1852, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Ada Lovelace?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Jane Austen
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Hans Christian Andersen
  11. Edgar Allan Poe
  12. Abraham Lincoln
  13. Charles Darwin
  14. Charles Dickens
  15. Richard Wagner
  16. Otto von Bismarck
  17. Ada Lovelace
  18. Karl Marx
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Louis Pasteur
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When Ada Lovelace was born, Abraham Lincoln was 6, Napoleon was 46, Charles Darwin was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66 and Victor Hugo was 13.

When Ada Lovelace died, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

Born during Ada Lovelace’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Louis Pasteur and Friedrich Engels.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about a year after Ada Lovelace died, Immanuel Kant died 11 years before Ada Lovelace was born, Sigmund Freud was born 4 years after Ada Lovelace died and Marie Curie was born 15 years after Ada Lovelace died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  28. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  29. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  30. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  37. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  41. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  42. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  45. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  46. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  52. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  53. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  54. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  55. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  56. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  57. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  58. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  59. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  61. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  62. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  63. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  64. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  65. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  66. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  67. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  68. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  69. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  70. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  71. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  72. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  73. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  74. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  75. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  76. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
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  80. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  85. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  86. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
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  88. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
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  90. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  91. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  92. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  93. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  94. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
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  107. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
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  110. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  111. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  112. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  113. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  114. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  115. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  116. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
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  118. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  119. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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  122. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
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  133. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  134. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  135. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  136. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  137. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
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  139. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  140. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
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  143. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
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  146. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  147. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
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  149. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
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