Who Was Alive

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

Who was alive at the same time as Karl Marx?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Charles Dickens
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  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 Karl Marx was born, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 48, Charles Darwin was 9, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68 and Victor Hugo was 16.

When Karl Marx died, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

Born during Karl Marx’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 6 years after Karl Marx died, Charlie Chaplin was born 6 years after Karl Marx died, Immanuel Kant died 14 years before Karl Marx was born and Franz Kafka was born months after Karl Marx died.

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  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  39. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  40. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  41. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  42. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  43. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  44. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  45. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  46. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  47. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  48. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  49. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  50. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  51. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  52. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  53. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  54. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  55. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  56. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  57. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  59. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  60. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  61. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  62. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  63. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  64. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  66. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  67. James Madison 1751 – 1836
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  69. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
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  71. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  72. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  76. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  79. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
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  142. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
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