Who Was Alive

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

Yes. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 24 years, from 1828 to 1852.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was 59 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 24 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

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Leo Tolstoy 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.