Who Was Alive

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter

Born 3 October 1814 (Julian calendar) · died 15 July 1841 (Julian calendar), aged 26

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Lermontov?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Jane Austen
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Hans Christian Andersen
  11. Edgar Allan Poe
  12. Abraham Lincoln
  13. Charles Darwin
  14. Frédéric Chopin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Richard Wagner
  17. Mikhail Lermontov
  18. Otto von Bismarck
  19. Karl Marx
  20. Friedrich Engels
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Louis Pasteur
  23. Leo Tolstoy
  24. Mark Twain
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When Mikhail Lermontov was born, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 45, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 65 and Victor Hugo was 12.

When Mikhail Lermontov died, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 12, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 39.

Born during Mikhail Lermontov’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Otto von Bismarck, Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels and Alfred Nobel.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 15 years before Mikhail Lermontov was born, Vincent van Gogh was born 12 years after Mikhail Lermontov died, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 3 years after Mikhail Lermontov died and Thomas Edison was born 6 years after Mikhail Lermontov 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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  16. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  17. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  18. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  19. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
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