Who Was Alive

Alexander Pushkin

Russian poet, playwright, and novelist

Born 26 May 1799 (Julian calendar) · died 29 January 1837 (Julian calendar), aged 37

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Pushkin?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Jane Austen
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  9. Lord Byron
  10. Alexander Pushkin
  11. Victor Hugo
  12. Hans Christian Andersen
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Abraham Lincoln
  15. Charles Darwin
  16. Frédéric Chopin
  17. Charles Dickens
  18. Richard Wagner
  19. Otto von Bismarck
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Louis Pasteur
  23. Leo Tolstoy
  24. Mark Twain
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When Alexander Pushkin was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

When Alexander Pushkin died, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 34.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 8 years before Alexander Pushkin was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 7 years after Alexander Pushkin died, Thomas Edison was born 10 years after Alexander Pushkin died and Adam Smith died 9 years before Alexander Pushkin was born.

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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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