Who Was Alive

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and literary critic

Born 19 January 1809 · died 7 October 1849, aged 40

Who was alive at the same time as Edgar Allan Poe?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Jane Austen
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Hans Christian Andersen
  11. Edgar Allan Poe
  12. Abraham Lincoln
  13. Charles Darwin
  14. Frédéric Chopin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Richard Wagner
  17. Otto von Bismarck
  18. Karl Marx
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Louis Pasteur
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When Edgar Allan Poe was born, Napoleon was 39, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 9 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

When Edgar Allan Poe died, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 40, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 40 and Victor Hugo was 47.

Born during Edgar Allan Poe’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 10 years before Edgar Allan Poe was born, Vincent van Gogh was born 4 years after Edgar Allan Poe died, Immanuel Kant died 5 years before Edgar Allan Poe was born and Sigmund Freud was born 7 years after Edgar Allan Poe died.

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All 271 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  29. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  33. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  34. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  35. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  36. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  49. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  50. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  51. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  52. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  53. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  54. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  55. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  56. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  57. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  58. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  59. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  62. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  63. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  64. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  65. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  66. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  67. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  68. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  69. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  70. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  71. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  72. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
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  86. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
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  90. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
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  120. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
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  138. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
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  148. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
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