Who Was Alive

Robert Schumann

German composer, pianist and critic

Born 8 June 1810 · died 29 July 1856, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Schumann?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Robert Schumann
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Oscar Wilde
  23. Sigmund Freud
  24. Nikola Tesla
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When Robert Schumann was born, Abraham Lincoln was 1, Napoleon was 40, Charles Darwin was 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 60 and Victor Hugo was 8.

When Robert Schumann died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

Born during Robert Schumann’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 14 years after Robert Schumann died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 13 years after Robert Schumann died, George Washington died 11 years before Robert Schumann was born and Immanuel Kant died 6 years before Robert Schumann was born.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  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. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
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  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
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  53. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  54. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
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  63. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  64. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
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  67. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  68. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
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  70. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
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  72. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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