Who Was Alive

George Sand

French novelist and memoirist

Born 1 July 1804 · died 8 June 1876, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as George Sand?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Alexander Pushkin
  5. Victor Hugo
  6. George Sand
  7. Hans Christian Andersen
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Charles Darwin
  10. Charles Dickens
  11. Karl Marx
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Leo Tolstoy
  14. Mark Twain
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. Thomas Edison
  17. Vincent van Gogh
  18. Sigmund Freud
  19. Anton Chekhov
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. Marie Curie
  22. Mahatma Gandhi
  23. Vladimir Lenin
  24. Winston Churchill
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When George Sand was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When George Sand died, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 67.

Born during George Sand’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 13 years after George Sand died, Albert Einstein was born 3 years after George Sand died, Joseph Stalin was born 2 years after George Sand died and George Washington died 5 years before George Sand was born.

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  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. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  35. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  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. John Adams 1735 – 1826
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  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  52. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  53. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  55. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  56. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  57. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  58. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  59. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  60. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
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  64. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  65. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  66. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  67. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  68. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  69. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  70. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
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  76. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  77. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
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  79. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
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  82. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  134. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
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  139. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  140. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  141. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  142. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  143. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  144. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  145. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  146. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
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  148. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
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