Who Was Alive

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist

Born 24 July 1802 · died 5 December 1870, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Alexandre Dumas?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  7. Alexandre Dumas
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Charles Dickens
  12. Karl Marx
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Leo Tolstoy
  15. Mark Twain
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Thomas Edison
  18. Vincent van Gogh
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Anton Chekhov
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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When Alexandre Dumas was born, Napoleon was 32, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 52, Victor Hugo was under a year old, Immanuel Kant was 78 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

When Alexandre Dumas died, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 61.

Born during Alexandre Dumas’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 9 years after Alexandre Dumas died, Joseph Stalin was born 8 years after Alexandre Dumas died, George Washington died 3 years before Alexandre Dumas was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 11 years before Alexandre Dumas was born.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
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