Who Was Alive

Michael Faraday

British scientist

Born 22 September 1791 · died 25 August 1867, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Michael Faraday?

  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. Michael Faraday
  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 Michael Faraday was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When Michael Faraday died, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 12 years after Michael Faraday died, Vladimir Lenin was born 3 years after Michael Faraday died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 2 years after Michael Faraday died and Joseph Stalin was born 11 years after Michael Faraday died.

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  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. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
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