Who Was Alive

Camillo Benso di Cavour

First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861

Born 10 August 1810 · died 6 June 1861, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Camillo Benso di Cavour?

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When Camillo Benso di Cavour was born, Abraham Lincoln was 1, Napoleon was 40, Charles Darwin was 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 60 and Victor Hugo was 8.

When Camillo Benso di Cavour died, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

Born during Camillo Benso di Cavour’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 9 years after Camillo Benso di Cavour died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 8 years after Camillo Benso di Cavour died, George Washington died 11 years before Camillo Benso di Cavour was born and Winston Churchill was born 13 years after Camillo Benso di Cavour 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. 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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  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
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
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  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
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  76. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  77. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  78. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
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