Who Was Alive

Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet

Born 30 July 1818 · died 19 December 1848, aged 30

Who was alive at the same time as Emily Brontë?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  6. Lord Byron
  7. Alexander Pushkin
  8. Victor Hugo
  9. Hans Christian Andersen
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Frédéric Chopin
  14. Charles Dickens
  15. Richard Wagner
  16. Otto von Bismarck
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Emily Brontë
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Louis Pasteur
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When Emily Brontë was born, Karl Marx was under a year old, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 48, Charles Darwin was 9 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68.

When Emily Brontë died, Karl Marx was 30, Abraham Lincoln was 39, Leo Tolstoy was 20, Charles Darwin was 39 and Victor Hugo was 46.

Born during Emily Brontë’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels and Sarah Bernhardt.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 5 years after Emily Brontë died, Immanuel Kant died 14 years before Emily Brontë was born, Sigmund Freud was born 8 years after Emily Brontë died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 13 years after Emily Brontë died.

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All 261 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. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  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. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  60. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  61. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  62. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  63. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  64. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  65. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  68. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  69. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  70. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  71. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  72. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  73. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  74. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  75. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  76. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  77. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  78. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  79. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  80. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  81. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  82. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  83. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  84. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  85. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  86. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  87. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  88. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  89. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  90. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  91. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  92. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  93. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  94. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  95. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  96. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  97. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  98. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  99. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  100. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  101. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  102. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  103. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  104. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  105. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  106. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  107. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  108. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  109. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  110. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  111. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  112. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  113. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  114. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  115. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  116. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  117. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  118. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  119. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  120. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  121. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  122. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  123. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  124. William James 1842 – 1910
  125. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  126. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  127. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  128. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  129. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  130. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  131. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  132. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  133. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  134. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  135. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  136. Pius X 1835 – 1914
  137. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  138. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  139. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  140. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  141. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  142. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  143. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  144. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
  145. Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918
  146. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  147. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  148. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  149. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  150. John Dalton 1766 – 1844

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