Who Was Alive

Nicholas I of Russia

The 11th Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855

Born 25 June 1796 (Julian calendar) · died 18 February 1855 (Julian calendar), aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Nicholas I of Russia?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Nicholas I of Russia
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Edgar Allan Poe
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Otto von Bismarck
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Oscar Wilde
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When Nicholas I of Russia was born, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 64, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

When Nicholas I of Russia died, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 26, Charles Darwin was 46 and Victor Hugo was 53.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Mahatma Gandhi was born 14 years after Nicholas I of Russia died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 5 years before Nicholas I of Russia was born, Sigmund Freud was born about a year after Nicholas I of Russia died and Marie Curie was born 12 years after Nicholas I of Russia died.

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All 311 contemporaries we track

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  42. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  43. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  44. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  52. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  53. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  54. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  55. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  56. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  57. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  58. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  59. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  60. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  61. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  62. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  63. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  64. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  65. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  66. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  67. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  68. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  69. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  70. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  71. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  72. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  73. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  74. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  75. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  76. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  77. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  78. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  79. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  80. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  81. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  82. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  83. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  84. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  85. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  86. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  87. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  88. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  89. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  90. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  91. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  92. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  93. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  94. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  95. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  96. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  97. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  98. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  99. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  100. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  101. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  102. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  103. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  104. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  105. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  106. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  107. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  108. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  109. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  110. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  111. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  112. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  113. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  114. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  115. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  116. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  117. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  118. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  119. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  120. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  121. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  122. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  123. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  124. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  125. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  126. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  127. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  128. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  129. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  130. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  131. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  132. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  133. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  134. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  135. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  136. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  137. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  138. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  139. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  140. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  141. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  142. William James 1842 – 1910
  143. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  144. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  145. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  146. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  147. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  148. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  149. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  150. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

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