Who Was Alive

Simón Bolívar

Venezuelan statesman and military officer

Born 24 July 1783 · died 17 December 1830, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Simón Bolívar?

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Simón Bolívar
  11. Lord Byron
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Richard Wagner
  20. Otto von Bismarck
  21. Karl Marx
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Louis Pasteur
  24. Leo Tolstoy
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Simón Bolívar was born, Napoleon was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 33, George Washington was 51, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 27 and Immanuel Kant was 59.

When Simón Bolívar died, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

Born during Simón Bolívar’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died 5 years before Simón Bolívar was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 14 years after Simón Bolívar died, Mark Twain was born 5 years after Simón Bolívar died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died 5 years before Simón Bolívar was born.

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All 231 contemporaries we track

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  37. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  49. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  50. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  51. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  52. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  57. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  58. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  61. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  62. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  63. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  64. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  65. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  66. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  67. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  68. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  69. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  70. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  71. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  73. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  74. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  75. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  76. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
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  78. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
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  95. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
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  99. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  100. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
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