Who Was Alive

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet

Born 7 April 1770 · died 23 April 1850, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as William Wordsworth?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Immanuel Kant
  5. George Washington
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven
  10. Napoleon
  11. William Wordsworth
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Karl Marx
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When William Wordsworth was born, Napoleon was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 20, George Washington was 38, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 14 and Voltaire was 75.

When William Wordsworth died, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during William Wordsworth’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 3 years after William Wordsworth died, Sigmund Freud was born 6 years after William Wordsworth died, Rabindranath Tagore was born 11 years after William Wordsworth died and Anton Chekhov was born 10 years after William Wordsworth died.

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All 315 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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  25. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  26. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  27. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  32. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  33. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  34. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  35. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  36. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  37. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  38. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  42. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  43. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  60. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  61. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  66. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  69. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  70. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  81. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  85. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  86. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  87. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  88. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  89. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  90. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  91. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  92. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  93. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  94. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  96. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  97. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  98. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  99. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  100. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  101. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  102. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  103. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  104. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  105. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  106. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  107. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  108. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  109. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  110. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  111. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  112. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  113. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  114. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  115. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  116. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  117. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  118. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  119. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  120. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  121. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  122. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  123. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  124. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  125. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  126. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  127. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  128. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  129. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  130. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  131. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  132. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  133. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  134. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  135. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  136. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  137. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  138. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  139. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  140. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  141. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  142. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  143. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  144. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  145. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  146. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  147. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  148. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  149. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  150. William James 1842 – 1910

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