Who Was Alive

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

Born 25 May 1803 · died 27 April 1882, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Ralph Waldo Emerson?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Victor Hugo
  6. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Karl Marx
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Leo Tolstoy
  13. Mark Twain
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. Thomas Edison
  16. Vincent van Gogh
  17. Sigmund Freud
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
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When Ralph Waldo Emerson was born, Napoleon was 33, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 53, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

Born during Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 7 years after Ralph Waldo Emerson died, George Washington died 4 years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 12 years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born and Charlie Chaplin was born 7 years after Ralph Waldo Emerson died.

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  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
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