Who Was Alive

Gregor Mendel

Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar

Born 20 July 1822 · died 6 January 1884, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Gregor Mendel?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Gregor Mendel
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Gregor Mendel was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 20.

When Gregor Mendel died, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 14, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 5.

Born during Gregor Mendel’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 5 years after Gregor Mendel died, Napoleon died about a year before Gregor Mendel was born, Charlie Chaplin was born 5 years after Gregor Mendel died and Mao Zedong was born 9 years after Gregor Mendel died.

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  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  44. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  45. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  46. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  47. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  48. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  49. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  50. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  51. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  54. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  55. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  56. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  57. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  58. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  59. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  60. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  61. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  62. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  63. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  64. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  65. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  66. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  67. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  68. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  69. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  70. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  71. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  72. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  73. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  74. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  75. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  78. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  79. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  80. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
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  82. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  83. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  85. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  86. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  87. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
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  89. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  90. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
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  116. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
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  119. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  120. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
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  127. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
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  138. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
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  140. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  141. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  142. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  143. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  144. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
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  147. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  148. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
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