Who Was Alive

Alfred de Musset

French writer

Born 11 December 1810 · died 2 May 1857, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred de Musset?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Alfred de Musset
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Oscar Wilde
  23. Sigmund Freud
  24. Nikola Tesla
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When Alfred de Musset was born, Abraham Lincoln was 1, Napoleon was 41, Charles Darwin was 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 61 and Victor Hugo was 8.

When Alfred de Musset died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 55.

Born during Alfred de Musset’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 13 years after Alfred de Musset died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 12 years after Alfred de Musset died, George Washington died 11 years before Alfred de Musset was born and Immanuel Kant died 6 years before Alfred de Musset was born.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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