Who Was Alive
Alfonso XII
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Alfonso XII

Monarch of Spain

Born 28 November 1857 · died 25 November 1885, aged 27
Also known as Alfonso XII of Spain

Who was alive at the same time as Alfonso XII?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Alfonso XII, 1857 – 1885
  15. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  16. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  17. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  18. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  19. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  20. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  23. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945

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When Alfonso XII was born, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 55.

When Alfonso XII died, Albert Einstein was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 15, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 6.

Born during Alfonso XII’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Marie Curie.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 4 years after Alfonso XII died, Charlie Chaplin was born about 4 years after Alfonso XII died, Mao Zedong was born about 8 years after Alfonso XII died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 8 years before Alfonso XII was born.

What happened in Alfonso XII’s lifetime

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

919 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alfonso XII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1871.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  41. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  45. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  46. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  47. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  48. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  49. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  50. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  51. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  53. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  54. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  55. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  56. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  57. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  58. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  60. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  61. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  62. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  63. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  64. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  65. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  66. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  67. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  68. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  69. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  70. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  71. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  72. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  73. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  74. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  75. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  76. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  77. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  78. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  79. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  80. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  81. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  82. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  83. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  84. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  85. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  86. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  87. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  88. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  89. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  90. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  91. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  92. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  93. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  94. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  95. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  96. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  97. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  98. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  99. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  100. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  101. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  102. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  103. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  104. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  105. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  106. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  107. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  108. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  109. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  110. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  111. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  112. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  113. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  114. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  115. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  116. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  117. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  118. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  119. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  120. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  121. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  122. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  123. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  124. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  125. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  126. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  127. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  128. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  129. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  130. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  131. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  132. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  133. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  134. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  135. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  136. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  137. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  138. Alexander Fleming 1881 – 1955
  139. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  140. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  141. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  142. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  143. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  144. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  145. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  146. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  147. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  148. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  149. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  150. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912