Who Was Alive

Alexandre Dumas fils

French writer and dramatist

Born 27 July 1824 · died 27 November 1895, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Alexandre Dumas fils?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Alexandre Dumas fils
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Alexandre Dumas fils was born, Karl Marx was 6, Abraham Lincoln was 15, Charles Darwin was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 74 and Victor Hugo was 22.

When Alexandre Dumas fils died, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

Born during Alexandre Dumas fils’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died 3 years before Alexandre Dumas fils was born, Salvador Dalí was born 9 years after Alexandre Dumas fils died, Lord Byron died months before Alexandre Dumas fils was born and Walt Disney was born 6 years after Alexandre Dumas fils died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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