Who Was Alive

Were Ada Lovelace and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Ada Lovelace and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 34 years, from 1818 to 1852.

Ada Lovelace was 2 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 34 when Ada Lovelace died, aged 36.

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician

Born 10 December 1815 · died 27 November 1852, aged 36

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

Born 5 May 1818 · died 14 March 1883, aged 64

  1. Napoleon
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Ada Lovelace
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Ada Lovelace and Karl Marx in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.