Who Was Alive

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter

Born 30 March 1853 · died 29 July 1890, aged 37

Who was alive at the same time as Vincent van Gogh?

  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. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Rabindranath Tagore
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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 Vincent van Gogh was born, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

When Vincent van Gogh died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born 14 years after Vincent van Gogh died, Mao Zedong was born 3 years after Vincent van Gogh died, Edgar Allan Poe died 4 years before Vincent van Gogh was born and Charles de Gaulle was born months after Vincent van Gogh died.

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All 414 contemporaries we track

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  38. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  44. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  49. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  52. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  53. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  54. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  55. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  57. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  58. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  59. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  60. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  61. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  62. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  64. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  65. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  66. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  67. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  68. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  69. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  70. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  71. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  72. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  73. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  74. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  75. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  76. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  77. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  78. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  79. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  80. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  81. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  82. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  83. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  84. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  85. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  86. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  87. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  88. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  89. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  90. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  91. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  92. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  93. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  95. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  96. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  97. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  98. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  99. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  100. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  101. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  102. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  103. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  104. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  105. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  106. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  107. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  108. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  109. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  110. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  111. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  112. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  113. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  114. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  115. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  116. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  117. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  118. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  119. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  120. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  121. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  122. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  123. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  124. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  125. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  126. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  127. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  128. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  129. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  130. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  131. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  132. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  133. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  134. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  135. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  136. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  137. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  138. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  139. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  140. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  141. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  142. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  143. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  144. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  145. John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  146. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  147. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  148. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  149. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  150. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889

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