Who Was Alive

Charles Darwin

English naturalist and biologist

Born 12 February 1809 · died 19 April 1882, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Darwin?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Charles Dickens
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
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When Charles Darwin was born, Abraham Lincoln was under a year old, Napoleon was 39, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59, Victor Hugo was 6 and Alexander Pushkin was 9.

When Charles Darwin died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

Born during Charles Darwin’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 7 years after Charles Darwin died, George Washington died 10 years before Charles Darwin was born, Charlie Chaplin was born 7 years after Charles Darwin died and Immanuel Kant died 5 years before Charles Darwin was born.

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All 446 contemporaries we track

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  40. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  41. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  42. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  43. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  44. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  45. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  46. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  47. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  48. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  49. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  50. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  51. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  52. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  53. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  54. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  55. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  56. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  57. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  58. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  59. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  60. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  61. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  62. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  63. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  64. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  65. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  67. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  68. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  69. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  70. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  71. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  72. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  73. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  74. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  75. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  76. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  77. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  78. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  79. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  80. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  81. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  82. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  83. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  84. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  85. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  86. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  87. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  88. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  89. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  90. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  91. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  92. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  93. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  94. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  95. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  96. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  97. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  98. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  99. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  100. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  101. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  102. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  103. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  104. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  105. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  106. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  107. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  108. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  109. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  110. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  111. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  112. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  113. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  114. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  115. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  116. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  117. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  118. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  119. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  120. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  121. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  122. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  123. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  124. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  125. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  126. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  127. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  128. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  129. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  130. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  131. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  132. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  133. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  134. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  135. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  136. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  137. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  138. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  139. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  140. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  141. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  142. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  143. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  144. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  145. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  146. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  147. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  148. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  149. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  150. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916

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