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Arthur de Gobineau
Paul Mahaut (Mathilde Sallier de La Tour, née Ruinart de Brimont), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Arthur de Gobineau

French diplomat and writer

Born 14 July 1816 · died 13 October 1882, aged 66
Also known as Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, Ariel des Feux, Joseph-Arthur Gobineau

Who was alive at the same time as Arthur de Gobineau?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Arthur de Gobineau, 1816 – 1882
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Arthur de Gobineau was born, Abraham Lincoln was 7, Napoleon was 46, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66, Charles Darwin was 7 and Victor Hugo was 14.

When Arthur de Gobineau died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

Born during Arthur de Gobineau’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 7 years after Arthur de Gobineau died, Charlie Chaplin was born about 7 years after Arthur de Gobineau died, Immanuel Kant died about 12 years before Arthur de Gobineau was born and Franz Kafka was born about a year after Arthur de Gobineau died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,056 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Arthur de Gobineau. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1849.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  44. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  45. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  46. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  54. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  55. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  56. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  57. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  58. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  59. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  60. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  61. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  62. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  63. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  64. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  65. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  66. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  68. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  69. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  70. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  71. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  72. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  73. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  74. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  75. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  76. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  77. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  78. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  79. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  80. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  81. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  82. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  83. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  84. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  85. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  86. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  87. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  88. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  89. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  90. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  91. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  92. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  93. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  94. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  95. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  96. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  97. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  98. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  99. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  100. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  101. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  102. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  103. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  104. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  105. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  106. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  107. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  108. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  109. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  110. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  111. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  112. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  113. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  114. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  115. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  116. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  117. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  118. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  119. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  120. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  121. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  122. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  123. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  124. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  125. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  126. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  127. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  128. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  129. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  130. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  131. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  132. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  133. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  134. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  135. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  136. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  137. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  138. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  139. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  140. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  141. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  142. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  143. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  144. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  145. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  146. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  147. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  148. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  149. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  150. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893