Who Was Alive

Were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 5 years, from 1828 to 1834.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was 55 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 5 when Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, aged 61.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Born 21 October 1772 · died 25 July 1834, aged 61

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.