Who Was Alive

Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet

Born 4 August 1792 · died 8 July 1822, aged 29

Who was alive at the same time as Percy Bysshe Shelley?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  8. Jane Austen
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  10. Lord Byron
  11. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Frédéric Chopin
  19. Charles Dickens
  20. Richard Wagner
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Friedrich Engels
  24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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When Percy Bysshe Shelley was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 60, Immanuel Kant was 68 and Thomas Jefferson was 49.

When Percy Bysshe Shelley died, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 20.

Born during Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 6 years after Percy Bysshe Shelley died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about a year before Percy Bysshe Shelley was born, Voltaire died 14 years before Percy Bysshe Shelley was born and Mark Twain was born 13 years after Percy Bysshe Shelley died.

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