Who Was Alive

Auguste Comte

French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist

Born 19 January 1798 · died 5 September 1857, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Auguste Comte?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Auguste Comte
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Edgar Allan Poe
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Karl Marx
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Leo Tolstoy
  19. Mark Twain
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche
  21. Thomas Edison
  22. Vincent van Gogh
  23. Oscar Wilde
  24. Sigmund Freud
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When Auguste Comte was born, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

When Auguste Comte died, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 55.

Born during Auguste Comte’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 13 years after Auguste Comte died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 12 years after Auguste Comte died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 7 years before Auguste Comte was born and Marie Curie was born 10 years after Auguste Comte died.

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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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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