Who Was Alive

Were Mary Shelley and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Mary Shelley and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 32 years, from 1818 to 1851.

Mary Shelley was 20 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 32 when Mary Shelley died, aged 53.

Mary Shelley

English writer

Born 30 August 1797 · died 1 February 1851, aged 53

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Mary Shelley
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Mary Shelley and Karl Marx 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.