Who Was Alive

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian opera composer

Born 10 October 1813 · died 27 January 1901, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Giuseppe Verdi?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Giuseppe Verdi
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Giuseppe Verdi was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Giuseppe Verdi died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

Born during Giuseppe Verdi’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 10 years after Giuseppe Verdi died, George Washington died 14 years before Giuseppe Verdi was born, Immanuel Kant died 9 years before Giuseppe Verdi was born and Salvador Dalí was born 3 years after Giuseppe Verdi died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  70. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  85. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  92. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  93. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  99. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  104. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  105. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  110. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  111. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  112. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  113. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  114. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  121. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  122. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  123. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  124. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  125. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  126. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  127. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  130. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  131. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  132. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  133. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  134. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  135. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  137. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  146. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  147. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  148. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  149. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
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