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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

British poet

Born 5 April 1837 · died 10 April 1909, aged 72
Also known as Algernon Charles Swiburne, Algernon Swinburne

Who was alive at the same time as Algernon Charles Swinburne?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837 – 1909
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Algernon Charles Swinburne was born, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

When Algernon Charles Swinburne died, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 30, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

Born during Algernon Charles Swinburne’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 2 years after Algernon Charles Swinburne died, Nelson Mandela was born about 9 years after Algernon Charles Swinburne died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 5 years before Algernon Charles Swinburne was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about 10 years before Algernon Charles Swinburne was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,593 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Algernon Charles Swinburne. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1873.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  68. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  69. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  84. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  88. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  89. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  90. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  91. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  100. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  101. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  102. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  103. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  111. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  112. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  113. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  114. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  115. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  116. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  117. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  118. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  119. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  120. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  121. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  122. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  123. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  124. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  125. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  126. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  127. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  128. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  129. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  130. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  131. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  132. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  134. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  135. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  136. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  137. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  140. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  141. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  142. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  143. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  144. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  145. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  146. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  147. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  148. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924