Who Was Alive

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

Born 27 February 1807 · died 24 March 1882, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Charles Darwin
  8. Charles Dickens
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Leo Tolstoy
  12. Mark Twain
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche
  14. Thomas Edison
  15. Vincent van Gogh
  16. Sigmund Freud
  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
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When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 57, Victor Hugo was 5, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

Born during Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 7 years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died, George Washington died 8 years before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born, Charlie Chaplin was born 7 years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died and Immanuel Kant died 3 years before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born.

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  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  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. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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