Who Was Alive

Were John Quincy Adams and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. John Quincy Adams and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 29 years, from 1818 to 1848.

John Quincy Adams was 50 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 29 when John Quincy Adams died, aged 80.

John Quincy Adams

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

Born 11 July 1767 · died 23 February 1848, aged 80

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. John Quincy Adams
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
John Quincy Adams 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.