Who Was Alive

Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs

Born 29 July 1805 · died 16 April 1859, aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Alexis de Tocqueville?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Oscar Wilde
  23. Sigmund Freud
  24. Nikola Tesla
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 Alexis de Tocqueville was born, Napoleon was 35, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 55, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 6 and Hans Christian Andersen was under a year old.

When Alexis de Tocqueville died, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Alexis de Tocqueville’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 11 years after Alexis de Tocqueville died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 10 years after Alexis de Tocqueville died, George Washington died 6 years before Alexis de Tocqueville was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 14 years before Alexis de Tocqueville was born.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  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. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  40. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
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  49. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
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  66. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
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