Who Was Alive

Lord Byron

English Romantic poet and lyricist

Born 22 January 1788 · died 19 April 1824, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Lord Byron?

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Jane Austen
  11. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  12. Lord Byron
  13. Alexander Pushkin
  14. Victor Hugo
  15. Hans Christian Andersen
  16. Edgar Allan Poe
  17. Abraham Lincoln
  18. Charles Darwin
  19. Charles Dickens
  20. Richard Wagner
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Louis Pasteur
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When Lord Byron was born, Napoleon was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 38, George Washington was 55, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 31 and Immanuel Kant was 63.

When Lord Byron died, Karl Marx was 5, Abraham Lincoln was 15, Charles Darwin was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 74 and Victor Hugo was 22.

Born during Lord Byron’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 4 years after Lord Byron died, Voltaire died 10 years before Lord Byron was born, Mark Twain was born 11 years after Lord Byron died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died 10 years before Lord Byron was born.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  37. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  38. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  39. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  42. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  43. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  44. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  45. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  46. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  47. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  48. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  49. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  50. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  51. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  52. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  53. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  54. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  55. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  56. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  57. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  58. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  59. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  60. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  61. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  62. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  63. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  64. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  65. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  66. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  67. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  68. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  69. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  70. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  71. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  72. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  73. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  74. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  75. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  76. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  77. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  78. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  79. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  80. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  81. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  82. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  83. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  84. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  85. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  86. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  87. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  88. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  89. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  90. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  91. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  92. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  93. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  94. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  95. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  96. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  97. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  98. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  99. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  100. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  101. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  102. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  103. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  104. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  105. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  106. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  107. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  108. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  109. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  110. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  111. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  112. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  113. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  114. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  115. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  116. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  117. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  119. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  120. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  121. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  122. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  123. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
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  127. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  128. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  129. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  130. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  131. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  132. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  133. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  134. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  135. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  136. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  137. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  138. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  139. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  140. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  141. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  142. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  143. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  144. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  145. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  146. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  147. Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
  148. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  149. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  150. Baháʼu'lláh 1817 – 1892

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