Who Was Alive

Were Gioachino Rossini and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Gioachino Rossini and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 40 years, from 1828 to 1868.

Gioachino Rossini was 36 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 40 when Gioachino Rossini died, aged 76.

Gioachino Rossini

Italian opera composer

Born 29 February 1792 · died 13 November 1868, aged 76

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Gioachino Rossini
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Gioachino Rossini and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.