Who Was Alive

Were Karl Marx and Emily Brontë alive at the same time?

Yes. Karl Marx and Emily Brontë were alive at the same time for 30 years, from 1818 to 1848.

Karl Marx was under a year old when Emily Brontë was born.

Both were 30 when Emily Brontë died.

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet

Born 30 July 1818 · died 19 December 1848, aged 30

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