Who Was Alive

Andrew Jackson

President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

Born 15 March 1767 · died 8 June 1845, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Andrew Jackson?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Immanuel Kant
  5. George Washington
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  9. Andrew Jackson
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven
  11. Napoleon
  12. Lord Byron
  13. Alexander Pushkin
  14. Victor Hugo
  15. Hans Christian Andersen
  16. Edgar Allan Poe
  17. Abraham Lincoln
  18. Charles Darwin
  19. Charles Dickens
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Leo Tolstoy
  23. Mark Twain
  24. Friedrich Nietzsche
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When Andrew Jackson was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 17, George Washington was 35, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 11, Voltaire was 72 and Immanuel Kant was 42.

When Andrew Jackson died, Karl Marx was 27, Abraham Lincoln was 36, Leo Tolstoy was 16, Charles Darwin was 36 and Victor Hugo was 43.

Born during Andrew Jackson’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 8 years after Andrew Jackson died, Thomas Edison was born 2 years after Andrew Jackson died, Sigmund Freud was born 11 years after Andrew Jackson died and Anton Chekhov was born 15 years after Andrew Jackson died.

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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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  26. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  27. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  28. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  29. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  47. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  61. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  62. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  63. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  64. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  65. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  66. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  67. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  68. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  69. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  70. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  71. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  72. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  73. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  74. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  75. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  76. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  77. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  78. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  79. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  80. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  81. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  82. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  83. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  84. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  85. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  86. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  87. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  88. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  89. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  90. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  91. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  92. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  93. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  94. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  95. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  96. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  97. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  98. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  99. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  100. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
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  103. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
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  105. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  106. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
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  110. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  111. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
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  113. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  114. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  115. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  116. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  117. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  118. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  119. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  120. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  121. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  122. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  123. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  124. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  125. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  126. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  127. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  128. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  129. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  130. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  131. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  132. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  133. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  134. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  135. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  136. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  137. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  138. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  139. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  140. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  141. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  142. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  143. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  144. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  145. William James 1842 – 1910
  146. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  147. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  148. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  149. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
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