Who Was Alive

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar

Born 27 January 1832 · died 14 January 1898, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Lewis Carroll?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Lewis Carroll
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Lewis Carroll was born, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 82.

When Lewis Carroll died, Adolf Hitler was 8, Albert Einstein was 18, Vladimir Lenin was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 28 and Leo Tolstoy was 69.

Born during Lewis Carroll’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 13 years after Lewis Carroll died, Napoleon died 11 years before Lewis Carroll was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 5 years before Lewis Carroll was born and Salvador Dalí was born 6 years after Lewis Carroll died.

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All 512 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  65. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  66. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  67. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  68. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  69. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  70. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  71. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  75. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  76. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  77. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  78. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  79. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  81. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  82. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  83. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  86. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  87. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  88. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  89. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  90. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  91. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  92. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  93. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  94. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  95. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  96. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  97. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  98. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  99. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  100. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  101. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  102. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  103. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  104. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  105. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  106. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  107. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  108. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  109. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  110. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  111. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  112. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  113. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  114. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  115. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  116. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  117. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  118. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  119. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  120. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  121. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  122. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  123. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  124. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  125. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  126. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  127. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  128. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  129. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  130. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  131. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  132. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  133. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  134. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  135. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  136. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  137. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  138. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  139. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  140. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  141. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  142. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  143. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  144. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  145. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  146. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  147. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  148. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  149. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  150. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859

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