Who Was Alive

Were Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 11 years, from 1818 to 1829.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was 73 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 11 when Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck died, aged 85.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist

Born 1 August 1744 · died 18 December 1829, aged 85

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

Born 5 May 1818 · died 14 March 1883, aged 64

  1. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Karl Marx in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.