Who Was Alive

Sofia Kovalevskaya

19th-century Russian mathematician

Born 3 January 1850 (Julian calendar) · died 10 February 1891, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Sofia Kovalevskaya?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Sofia Kovalevskaya
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  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 Sofia Kovalevskaya was born, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 40, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 40 and Victor Hugo was 47.

When Sofia Kovalevskaya died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

Born during Sofia Kovalevskaya’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born 13 years after Sofia Kovalevskaya died, Alexander Pushkin died 13 years before Sofia Kovalevskaya was born, Mao Zedong was born 2 years after Sofia Kovalevskaya died and Edgar Allan Poe died about a year before Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

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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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  34. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  37. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  40. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  41. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  42. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  43. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  44. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  45. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  46. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  47. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  49. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  50. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  51. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  54. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  55. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  56. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  57. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  58. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  59. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  60. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  61. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  62. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  63. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  64. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  65. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  66. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  68. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  69. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  70. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  71. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  72. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  73. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  75. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  76. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  77. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  78. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  79. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  80. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  81. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  82. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  83. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  84. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  85. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  86. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  87. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  88. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  89. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  90. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  91. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  92. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  93. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  94. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  95. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  96. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
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  100. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
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  102. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  103. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
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  109. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  110. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  111. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  112. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  113. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  114. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  115. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  116. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  117. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  118. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  119. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  120. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  121. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  122. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  123. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  124. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  125. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  126. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  127. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  128. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  129. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  130. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  131. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  132. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  133. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  134. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  135. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  136. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  137. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  138. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  139. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  140. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  141. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  142. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  143. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  144. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  145. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  146. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  147. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  148. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  149. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  150. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975

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