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Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny

French poet and playwright

Born 27 March 1797 · died 17 September 1863, aged 66
Also known as Alfred Victor de Vigny

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred de Vigny?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Alfred de Vigny, 1797 – 1863
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  11. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Alfred de Vigny was born, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

When Alfred de Vigny died, Karl Marx was 45, Abraham Lincoln was 54, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 54 and Victor Hugo was 61.

Born during Alfred de Vigny’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 7 years after Alfred de Vigny died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 6 years after Alfred de Vigny died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 6 years before Alfred de Vigny was born and Winston Churchill was born about 11 years after Alfred de Vigny died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

800 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alfred de Vigny. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1830.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  41. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  42. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  43. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  44. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  45. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  46. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  47. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  48. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  49. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  50. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  51. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  52. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  53. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  54. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  55. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  56. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  57. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  58. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  59. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  60. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  61. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  62. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  63. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  64. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  65. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  66. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  67. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  68. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  69. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  70. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  71. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  72. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  73. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  74. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  75. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  76. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  77. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  78. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  79. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  81. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  82. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  83. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  84. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  85. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  86. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  87. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  88. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  89. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  90. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  91. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  92. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  93. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  94. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  95. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  96. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  97. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  98. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  99. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  100. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  101. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  102. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  103. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  104. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  105. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  106. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  107. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  108. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  109. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  110. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  111. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  112. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  113. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  114. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  115. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  116. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  117. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  118. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  119. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  120. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  121. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  122. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  123. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  124. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  125. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  126. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  127. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  128. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  129. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  130. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  131. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  132. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  133. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  134. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  135. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  136. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  137. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  138. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  139. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  140. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  141. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  142. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  143. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  144. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  145. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  146. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  147. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  148. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  149. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  150. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918