Who Was Alive

David Livingstone

Scottish missionary and explorer

Born 19 March 1813 · died 1 May 1873, aged 60

Who was alive at the same time as David Livingstone?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  7. Hans Christian Andersen
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Charles Darwin
  10. Charles Dickens
  11. David Livingstone
  12. Karl Marx
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Leo Tolstoy
  15. Mark Twain
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Thomas Edison
  18. Vincent van Gogh
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Anton Chekhov
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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When David Livingstone was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When David Livingstone died, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 64.

Born during David Livingstone’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 6 years after David Livingstone died, Joseph Stalin was born 5 years after David Livingstone died, George Washington died 14 years before David Livingstone was born and Pablo Picasso was born 8 years after David Livingstone died.

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All 395 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  36. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  37. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  38. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  39. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  40. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  41. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  45. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  46. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  47. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  48. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  49. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  50. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  51. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  53. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  54. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  55. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  56. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  57. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  58. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  60. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  61. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  62. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  69. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  70. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  71. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  72. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  73. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  74. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  75. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  76. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  77. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  78. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  79. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  80. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  81. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  82. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  83. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  84. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  85. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  86. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  87. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  88. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  89. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  90. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  91. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  92. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  93. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  94. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  95. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  96. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  97. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  98. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  99. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  100. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  101. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  102. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  103. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  104. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  105. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  106. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  107. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  108. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  109. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  110. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  111. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  112. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  113. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  114. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  115. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  116. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  117. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  118. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  119. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  120. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  121. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  122. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  123. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  124. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  125. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  126. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  127. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  128. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  129. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  130. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  131. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  132. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  133. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  134. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  135. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  136. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  137. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  138. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  139. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  140. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  141. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  142. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  143. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  144. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  145. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  146. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  147. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  148. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  149. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  150. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830

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