Who Was Alive

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright

Born 7 May 1812 · died 12 December 1889, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Browning?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Robert Browning
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  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 Robert Browning was born, Abraham Lincoln was 3, Napoleon was 42, Charles Darwin was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 62 and Victor Hugo was 10.

When Robert Browning died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

Born during Robert Browning’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 13 years before Robert Browning was born, Immanuel Kant died 8 years before Robert Browning was born, Salvador Dalí was born 15 years after Robert Browning died and Mao Zedong was born 4 years after Robert Browning died.

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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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  52. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  53. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  54. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  55. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  62. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  68. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  69. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  70. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  71. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  72. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  78. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  79. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  83. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  90. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  91. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  92. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  93. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  94. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  97. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  105. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  106. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  107. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  108. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  109. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  110. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  111. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  112. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  113. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  114. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  115. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  116. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  117. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  118. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  119. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  120. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  121. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  122. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  123. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  124. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  125. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  126. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  127. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  128. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  129. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  130. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  131. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  135. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  136. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  137. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  138. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  139. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  140. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  141. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  142. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  143. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  144. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  145. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  146. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  147. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  148. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  149. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
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