Who Was Alive

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian writer and poet

Born 7 March 1785 · died 22 May 1873, aged 88

Who was alive at the same time as Alessandro Manzoni?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Alessandro Manzoni
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Karl Marx
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Leo Tolstoy
  16. Mark Twain
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Thomas Edison
  19. Vincent van Gogh
  20. Sigmund Freud
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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 Alessandro Manzoni was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 60.

When Alessandro Manzoni died, Karl Marx was 55, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 64.

Born during Alessandro Manzoni’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 6 years after Alessandro Manzoni died, Joseph Stalin was born 5 years after Alessandro Manzoni died, Pablo Picasso was born 8 years after Alessandro Manzoni died and Winston Churchill was born about a year after Alessandro Manzoni died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  39. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
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  71. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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