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Gioachino Rossini

Italian opera composer

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

Who was alive at the same time as Gioachino Rossini?

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When Gioachino Rossini was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 67 and Thomas Jefferson was 48.

When Gioachino Rossini died, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 40, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

Born during Gioachino Rossini’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 11 years after Gioachino Rossini died, Vladimir Lenin was born 2 years after Gioachino Rossini died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about a year after Gioachino Rossini died and Joseph Stalin was born 10 years after Gioachino Rossini died.

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  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
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  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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