Who Was Alive

Alexander I of Russia

The tenth Emperor of Russia

Born 12 December 1777 (Julian calendar) · died 19 November 1825 (Julian calendar), aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander I of Russia?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. Alexander I of Russia
  14. Lord Byron
  15. Alexander Pushkin
  16. Victor Hugo
  17. Hans Christian Andersen
  18. Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Abraham Lincoln
  20. Charles Darwin
  21. Charles Dickens
  22. Otto von Bismarck
  23. Karl Marx
  24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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When Alexander I of Russia was born, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 and Voltaire was 83.

When Alexander I of Russia died, Karl Marx was 7, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 23.

Born during Alexander I of Russia’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 3 years after Alexander I of Russia died, Mark Twain was born 10 years after Alexander I of Russia died, Alfred Nobel was born 8 years after Alexander I of Russia died and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born 15 years after Alexander I of Russia died.

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All 227 contemporaries we track

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  32. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  33. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  43. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  44. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  48. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  49. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  52. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  53. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  54. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  55. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  56. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  57. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  58. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  61. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  62. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  63. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  64. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  65. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  66. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  67. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  68. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  69. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  70. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  71. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  72. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  73. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  74. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  75. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  76. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  77. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  78. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  79. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  80. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  81. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  82. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  83. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  84. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  85. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  86. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  87. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  88. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  89. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  90. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  91. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  92. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  93. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  94. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  95. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  96. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  97. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  98. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  99. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  100. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  101. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  102. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  103. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  104. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  105. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  106. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  107. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  108. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  109. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  110. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  111. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  112. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  113. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  114. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  115. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  116. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  117. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  118. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  119. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  120. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  121. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  122. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  123. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  124. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  125. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  126. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  127. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  128. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  129. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  130. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  131. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  132. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  133. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  134. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  135. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  136. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  137. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  138. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  139. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  140. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  141. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  142. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  143. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  144. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  145. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  146. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  147. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  148. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  149. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  150. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844

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