Who Was Alive

George Eliot

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist

Born 22 November 1819 · died 22 December 1880, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as George Eliot?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Alexander Pushkin
  5. Victor Hugo
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Charles Darwin
  8. Charles Dickens
  9. Karl Marx
  10. George Eliot
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Leo Tolstoy
  13. Mark Twain
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. Thomas Edison
  16. Vincent van Gogh
  17. Sigmund Freud
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. Marie Curie
  20. Mahatma Gandhi
  21. Vladimir Lenin
  22. Winston Churchill
  23. Joseph Stalin
  24. Albert Einstein
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When George Eliot was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 50, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 70.

When George Eliot died, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

Born during George Eliot’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 9 years after George Eliot died, Pablo Picasso was born about a year after George Eliot died, Charlie Chaplin was born 9 years after George Eliot died and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born 2 years after George Eliot died.

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All 423 contemporaries we track

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  44. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  45. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  46. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  47. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  48. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  49. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  50. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  53. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  54. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  55. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  56. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  57. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  58. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  59. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  60. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  61. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  62. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  63. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  64. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  65. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  66. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  67. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  68. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  69. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  70. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  71. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  72. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  73. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  74. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  75. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  76. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  77. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  78. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  79. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  80. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  81. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  82. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  83. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  84. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  85. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  86. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  87. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  88. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  89. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  90. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  91. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  92. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  93. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  94. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  95. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  96. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  97. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  98. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  99. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  100. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  101. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  106. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  107. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  108. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  109. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  110. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  111. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  112. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  113. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  114. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  115. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  116. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  117. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  118. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  119. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  120. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  121. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  122. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  123. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  124. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  125. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  126. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  127. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  128. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  129. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  130. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  131. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  132. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  133. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  140. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  141. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  142. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  143. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  144. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  145. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  146. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  147. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  148. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  149. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  150. George Sand 1804 – 1876

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