Who Was Alive

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist

Born 8 January 1823 · died 7 November 1913, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred Russel Wallace?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Alfred Russel Wallace
  9. Leo Tolstoy
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Ronald Reagan
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When Alfred Russel Wallace was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 20.

When Alfred Russel Wallace died, Adolf Hitler was 24, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 43 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

Born during Alfred Russel Wallace’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born 5 years after Alfred Russel Wallace died, Napoleon died 2 years before Alfred Russel Wallace was born, Elizabeth II was born 13 years after Alfred Russel Wallace died and John F. Kennedy was born 4 years after Alfred Russel Wallace died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  54. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  65. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
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  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
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  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
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  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  102. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
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  116. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  118. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  119. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  120. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  123. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  126. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  127. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  128. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
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  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  141. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  142. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  143. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
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