Who Was Alive

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer and poet

Born 2 April 1805 · died 4 August 1875, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Hans Christian Andersen?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  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
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 Hans Christian Andersen was born, Napoleon was 35, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 55, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Hans Christian Andersen died, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

Born during Hans Christian Andersen’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 14 years after Hans Christian Andersen died, Albert Einstein was born 4 years after Hans Christian Andersen died, Joseph Stalin was born 3 years after Hans Christian Andersen died and George Washington died 6 years before Hans Christian Andersen was born.

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  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. 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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