Who Was Alive

Victor Hugo

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician

Born 26 February 1802 · died 22 May 1885, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Victor Hugo?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Victor Hugo
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Charles Darwin
  8. Charles Dickens
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Leo Tolstoy
  12. Mark Twain
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche
  14. Thomas Edison
  15. Vincent van Gogh
  16. Sigmund Freud
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
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When Victor Hugo was born, Napoleon was 32, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 52, Immanuel Kant was 77, Alexander Pushkin was 2 and Thomas Jefferson was 58.

When Victor Hugo died, Albert Einstein was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 15, Mahatma Gandhi was 15, Leo Tolstoy was 56 and Joseph Stalin was 6.

Born during Victor Hugo’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 4 years after Victor Hugo died, George Washington died 3 years before Victor Hugo was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 11 years before Victor Hugo was born and Charlie Chaplin was born 4 years after Victor Hugo died.

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  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
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  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
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