Who Was Alive

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer

Born 25 April 1840 (Julian calendar) · died 25 October 1893 (Julian calendar), aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born, Karl Marx was 22, Abraham Lincoln was 31, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 31 and Victor Hugo was 38.

When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died, Adolf Hitler was 4, Albert Einstein was 14, Vladimir Lenin was 23, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

Born during Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 8 years before Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 13 years before Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born, Salvador Dalí was born 11 years after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died and Alexander Pushkin died 3 years before Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  40. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  41. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  42. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  56. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  57. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  58. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  59. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  60. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
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  69. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  70. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
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  72. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  73. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  74. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  79. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  80. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  81. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  82. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  84. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  85. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  86. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  87. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  88. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
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  114. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
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  116. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  117. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  118. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  119. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  120. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  121. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  122. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  123. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  124. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  125. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  126. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
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  130. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
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  141. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  142. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
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  144. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  145. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  146. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  147. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
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