Who Was Alive

Were Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 34 years, from 1818 to 1852.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was 49 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 34 when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died, aged 83.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

Born 1 May 1769 · died 14 September 1852, aged 83

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

Born 5 May 1818 · died 14 March 1883, aged 64

  1. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Karl Marx in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.