Who Was Alive

Martin Van Buren

President of the United States from 1837 to 1841

Born 5 December 1782 · died 24 July 1862, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as Martin Van Buren?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven
  7. Napoleon
  8. Martin Van Buren
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Abraham Lincoln
  13. Charles Darwin
  14. Charles Dickens
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
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When Martin Van Buren was born, Napoleon was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 33, George Washington was 50, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 26 and Immanuel Kant was 58.

When Martin Van Buren died, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 33, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

Born during Martin Van Buren’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 8 years after Martin Van Buren died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 7 years after Martin Van Buren died, Winston Churchill was born 12 years after Martin Van Buren died and Voltaire died 4 years before Martin Van Buren was born.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  34. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  35. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  38. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  39. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  41. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  42. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  43. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  46. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  47. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  48. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  49. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  51. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  52. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  53. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  55. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  56. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  57. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  58. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  59. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  60. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  61. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  62. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  63. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  64. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  65. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  66. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  67. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  68. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  69. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  70. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  71. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  72. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  73. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  74. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  75. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  76. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  77. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  78. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  79. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  80. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  81. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  82. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  83. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  84. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  85. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  86. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  87. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  88. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  89. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  90. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  91. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  92. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  93. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  94. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  95. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  96. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  97. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  98. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  99. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  100. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
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  104. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  105. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  111. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  112. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  113. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  114. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  115. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  116. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  117. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  118. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  119. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  120. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  121. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  122. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  123. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  124. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  125. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  126. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  127. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  128. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  129. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  130. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  131. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  132. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  133. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  134. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  135. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  136. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  137. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  138. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  139. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  140. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  141. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  142. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  143. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  144. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  145. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  146. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  147. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  148. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  149. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  150. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917

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