Who Was Alive

Alexander III of Russia

Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894

Born 26 February 1845 (Julian calendar) · died 20 October 1894 (Julian calendar), aged 49

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

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Alexander III of Russia
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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 Alexander III of Russia was born, Karl Marx was 26, Abraham Lincoln was 36, Leo Tolstoy was 16, Charles Darwin was 36 and Victor Hugo was 43.

When Alexander III of Russia died, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

Born during Alexander III of Russia’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 13 years before Alexander III of Russia was born, Salvador Dalí was born 10 years after Alexander III of Russia died, Alexander Pushkin died 8 years before Alexander III of Russia was born and Walt Disney was born 7 years after Alexander III of Russia died.

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All 474 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  53. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  54. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  55. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  56. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  69. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  70. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  74. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  75. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  76. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  78. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  79. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  82. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  83. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  84. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  85. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  86. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  87. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  88. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  89. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  90. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  91. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  92. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  93. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  94. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  95. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  96. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  97. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  98. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  99. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  100. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  101. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  102. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  103. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  104. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  105. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  106. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  107. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  108. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  109. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  110. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  111. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  112. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  113. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  114. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  115. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  116. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  117. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  118. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  119. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  120. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  121. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  122. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  123. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  124. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  125. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  126. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  127. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  128. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  129. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  130. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  131. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  132. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  133. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  134. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  135. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  136. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  137. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  138. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  139. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  140. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  141. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  142. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  143. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  144. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  145. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  146. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  147. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  148. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  149. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  150. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917

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