Who Was Alive

Édouard Manet

French painter

Born 23 January 1832 · died 30 April 1883, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Édouard Manet?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Édouard Manet
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Rabindranath Tagore
  16. Marie Curie
  17. Mahatma Gandhi
  18. Vladimir Lenin
  19. Winston Churchill
  20. Joseph Stalin
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  22. Albert Einstein
  23. Pablo Picasso
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Édouard Manet was born, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 82.

When Édouard Manet died, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

Born during Édouard Manet’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 6 years after Édouard Manet died, Napoleon died 11 years before Édouard Manet was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 5 years before Édouard Manet was born and Charlie Chaplin was born 6 years after Édouard Manet died.

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All 413 contemporaries we track

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  39. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  41. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  42. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  43. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  46. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  47. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  48. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  49. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  50. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  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. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  69. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  70. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  71. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  72. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  73. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  74. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  75. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  76. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
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  79. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  80. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  81. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  86. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  87. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  88. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  89. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  90. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
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  93. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  94. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  95. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  96. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  97. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  98. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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  114. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  115. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  116. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  117. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
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  119. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  123. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
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  125. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  126. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  127. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  128. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  129. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  130. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  131. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  132. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
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  134. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  135. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
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  138. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  139. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  140. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  141. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  142. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  143. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  144. John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  145. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  146. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  147. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  148. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  149. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
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