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Alexander Griboyedov
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Alexander Griboyedov

Russian diplomat and poet

Born 4 January 1795 (Julian calendar) · died 30 January 1829 (Julian calendar), aged 34
Also known as Aleksandr Griboyedov, Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov, Aleksander Griboyedov

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Griboyedov?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  9. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  10. Alexander Griboyedov, 1795 – 1829
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Alexander Griboyedov was born, Napoleon was 25, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 45, George Washington was 62, Immanuel Kant was 70 and Thomas Jefferson was 51.

When Alexander Griboyedov died, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 19 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79.

Born during Alexander Griboyedov’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 4 years before Alexander Griboyedov was born, Mark Twain was born about 6 years after Alexander Griboyedov died, Adam Smith died about 5 years before Alexander Griboyedov was born and Benjamin Franklin died about 5 years before Alexander Griboyedov was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

467 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alexander Griboyedov. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1812.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  40. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  41. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  44. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  45. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  46. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  47. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  48. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  49. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  50. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  51. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  52. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  53. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  54. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  55. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  56. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  57. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  58. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  59. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  60. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  61. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  62. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  63. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  64. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  65. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  66. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  67. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  68. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  69. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  70. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  71. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  72. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  73. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  74. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  75. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  76. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  77. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  78. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  79. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  80. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  81. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  82. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  83. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  84. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  85. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  86. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  87. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  88. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  89. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  90. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  92. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  93. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  94. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  95. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  96. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  97. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  98. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  99. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  100. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  101. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  102. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  103. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  104. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  105. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  106. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  107. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  108. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  109. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  110. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  111. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  112. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  113. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  114. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  115. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  116. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  117. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  118. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  119. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  120. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  121. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  122. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  123. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  124. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  125. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  126. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  127. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  128. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  129. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  130. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  131. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  132. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  133. George III 1738 – 1820
  134. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  135. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  136. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  137. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  138. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  139. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  140. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  141. Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910
  142. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  143. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  144. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  145. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  146. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  147. Harriet Tubman c. 1821 – 1913
  148. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  149. Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
  150. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805