Who Was Alive

Were Karl Marx and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin alive at the same time?

Yes. Karl Marx and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin were alive at the same time for 57 years, from 1825 to 1883.

Karl Marx was 7 when William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was 57 when Karl Marx died, aged 64.

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer

Born 26 June 1825 · died 17 December 1907, aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Karl Marx
  4. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 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.