Who Was Alive

Charlotte Brontë

British novelist and poet

Born 21 April 1816 · died 31 March 1855, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Charlotte Brontë?

  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. Charles Dickens
  13. Richard Wagner
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Charlotte Brontë
  16. Karl Marx
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Louis Pasteur
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Oscar Wilde
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When Charlotte Brontë was born, Abraham Lincoln was 7, Napoleon was 46, Charles Darwin was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66 and Victor Hugo was 14.

When Charlotte Brontë died, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 26, Charles Darwin was 46 and Victor Hugo was 53.

Born during Charlotte Brontë’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.

Not quite contemporaries: Mahatma Gandhi was born 14 years after Charlotte Brontë died, Immanuel Kant died 12 years before Charlotte Brontë was born, Sigmund Freud was born about a year after Charlotte Brontë died and Marie Curie was born 12 years after Charlotte Brontë died.

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All 287 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  39. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  43. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  44. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  48. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  49. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  50. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  51. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  52. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  53. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  54. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  55. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  56. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  57. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  58. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  59. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  62. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  63. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  64. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  65. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  66. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  67. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  68. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  69. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  70. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  71. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  72. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  73. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  74. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  75. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  76. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  79. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  80. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  81. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  82. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  83. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  84. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  85. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  86. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  87. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  88. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  89. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  90. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  91. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  92. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  93. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  94. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  95. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  96. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  97. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  98. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  99. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  100. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  101. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  102. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  103. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  104. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  105. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  106. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  107. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  108. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  109. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  110. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  111. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  112. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  113. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  114. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  115. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  116. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  117. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  118. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  119. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  120. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  121. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  122. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  123. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  124. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  125. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  126. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  127. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  128. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  129. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  130. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  131. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  132. William James 1842 – 1910
  133. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  134. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  135. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  136. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  137. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  138. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  139. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  140. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  141. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  142. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  143. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  144. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  145. Pius X 1835 – 1914
  146. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  147. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
  148. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  149. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  150. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900

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