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Alexander Ostrovsky
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Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright

Born 31 March 1823 (Julian calendar) · died 2 June 1886 (Julian calendar), aged 63
Also known as Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Ostrovsky?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Alexander Ostrovsky, 1823 – 1886
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  17. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Alexander Ostrovsky was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 21.

When Alexander Ostrovsky died, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 7.

Born during Alexander Ostrovsky’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 3 years after Alexander Ostrovsky died, Napoleon died about 2 years before Alexander Ostrovsky was born, Charlie Chaplin was born about 3 years after Alexander Ostrovsky died and Mao Zedong was born about 7 years after Alexander Ostrovsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,099 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alexander Ostrovsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  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. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  56. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  57. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  58. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  59. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  60. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  61. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  62. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  63. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  64. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  65. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  66. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  67. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  68. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  69. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  70. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  71. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  72. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  73. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  74. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  75. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  76. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  77. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  78. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  82. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  83. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  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. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  90. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  91. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  92. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  93. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  94. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  95. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  96. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  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. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  105. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  106. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 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. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  115. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  116. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  117. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  118. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  119. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  120. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  121. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  122. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  123. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  124. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  125. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  126. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  127. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  128. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  129. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  130. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  131. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  132. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  133. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  134. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  135. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  136. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  137. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  138. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  139. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  140. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  141. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  142. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  143. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  144. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  145. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  146. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  147. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  148. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  149. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  150. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869