Who Was Alive

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Born 1 January 1823 · died c. 1849

Who was alive at the same time as Sándor Petőfi?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Frédéric Chopin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Richard Wagner
  15. Otto von Bismarck
  16. Karl Marx
  17. Friedrich Engels
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Louis Pasteur
  20. Sándor Petőfi
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When Sándor Petőfi was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 20.

Born during Sándor Petőfi’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, Alfred Nobel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Jules Verne.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died 2 years before Sándor Petőfi was born, Vincent van Gogh was born 2 years after Sándor Petőfi died, Sigmund Freud was born 5 years after Sándor Petőfi died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 10 years after Sándor Petőfi died.

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All 248 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  11. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  26. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  28. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  34. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  35. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  36. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  37. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  47. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  48. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  49. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  50. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  51. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  52. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  53. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  54. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  55. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  56. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  57. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  58. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  59. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  60. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  61. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  62. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  63. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  64. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  65. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  66. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  67. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  68. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  69. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  70. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  71. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  72. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  73. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  74. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  75. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  76. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  77. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  78. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  79. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  80. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  81. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  82. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  83. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  84. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  85. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  86. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  87. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  88. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  89. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  90. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  91. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  92. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  93. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  94. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  95. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  96. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  97. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  98. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  99. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  100. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  101. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  102. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  103. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  104. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  105. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  106. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  107. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  108. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  109. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  110. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  111. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  112. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  113. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  114. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  115. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  116. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  117. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  118. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  119. William James 1842 – 1910
  120. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  121. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  122. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  123. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  124. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  125. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  126. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  127. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  128. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  129. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  130. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  131. Pius X 1835 – 1914
  132. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  133. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  134. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  135. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  136. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  137. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  138. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  139. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
  140. Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918
  141. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  142. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  143. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  144. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  145. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  146. Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919
  147. Ramakrishna 1836 – 1886
  148. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  149. Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
  150. Carl Benz 1844 – 1929

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