Who Was Alive

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist

Born 24 December 1798 · died 26 November 1855, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Adam Mickiewicz?

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When Adam Mickiewicz was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

When Adam Mickiewicz died, Karl Marx was 37, Abraham Lincoln was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 46 and Victor Hugo was 53.

Born during Adam Mickiewicz’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 15 years after Adam Mickiewicz died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 14 years after Adam Mickiewicz died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 7 years before Adam Mickiewicz was born and Sigmund Freud was born about a year after Adam Mickiewicz died.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
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