Who Was Alive
Alexander Herzen
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Alexander Herzen

Russian writer and philosopher

Born 25 March 1812 (Julian calendar) · died 9 January 1870 (Julian calendar), aged 57
Also known as A. H., Gertsen, Aleksandr Herzen

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Herzen?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  8. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  9. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  10. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  11. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Herzen, 1812 – 1870
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  16. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  19. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  21. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  22. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  23. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  24. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948

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When Alexander Herzen was born, Abraham Lincoln was 3, Napoleon was 42, Charles Darwin was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 62 and Victor Hugo was 10.

When Alexander Herzen died, Karl Marx was 51, Mahatma Gandhi was under a year old, Leo Tolstoy was 41, Charles Darwin was 60 and Victor Hugo was 67.

Born during Alexander Herzen’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 9 years after Alexander Herzen died, Vladimir Lenin was born months after Alexander Herzen died, Joseph Stalin was born about 8 years after Alexander Herzen died and George Washington died about 13 years before Alexander Herzen was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

849 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alexander Herzen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1841.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  5. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  6. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  41. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  42. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  43. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  44. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  45. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  46. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  47. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  48. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  49. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  50. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  51. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  52. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  53. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  54. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  55. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  56. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  57. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  58. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  59. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  60. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  61. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  62. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  63. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  64. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  65. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  66. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  67. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  68. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  69. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  70. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  71. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  72. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  73. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  74. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  75. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  76. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  77. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  78. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  79. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  80. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  81. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  82. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  83. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  84. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  85. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  86. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  87. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  88. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  89. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  90. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  91. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  92. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  93. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  94. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  95. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  96. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  97. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  98. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  99. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  100. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  101. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  102. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  103. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  104. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  105. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  106. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  107. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  108. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  109. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  110. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  111. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  112. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  113. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  114. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  115. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  116. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  117. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  118. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  119. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  120. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  121. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  122. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  123. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  124. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  125. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  126. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  127. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  128. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  129. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  130. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  131. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  132. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  133. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  134. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  135. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  136. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  137. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  138. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  139. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  140. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  141. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  142. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  143. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  144. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  145. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  146. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  147. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  148. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  149. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  150. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886