Who Was Alive
Báb
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Báb

Religious leader

Born 20 October 1819 · died 1850, aged 30 or 31
Also known as Bab, Nuqtah-i Ula, Ali Mukhamed Bab

Who was alive at the same time as Báb?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  6. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  7. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  8. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  9. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  10. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  11. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  13. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  16. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  17. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  18. Báb, 1819 – 1850
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Báb was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 50, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 70.

When Báb died, Karl Marx was 31 or 32, Abraham Lincoln was 40 or 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21 or 22, Charles Darwin was 40 or 41 and Victor Hugo was 47 or 48.

Born during Báb’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels and Sarah Bernhardt.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 3 years after Báb died, Sigmund Freud was born about 6 years after Báb died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 11 years after Báb died and Anton Chekhov was born about 10 years after Báb died.

What happened in Báb’s lifetime

Where Báb’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

588 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Báb. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1835.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  29. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  33. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  34. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  35. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  41. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  42. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  45. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  49. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  50. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  51. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  52. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  53. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  54. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  55. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  56. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  57. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  58. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  59. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  60. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  61. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  63. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  64. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  65. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  68. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  69. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  70. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  71. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  72. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  73. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  74. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  75. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  76. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  77. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  78. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  79. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  80. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  81. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  82. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  83. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  84. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  85. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  86. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  87. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  88. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  89. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  90. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  91. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  92. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  93. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  94. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  95. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  96. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  97. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  98. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  99. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  100. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  101. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  102. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  103. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  104. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  105. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  106. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  107. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  108. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  109. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  110. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  111. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  112. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  113. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  114. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  115. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  116. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  117. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  118. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  119. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  120. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  121. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  122. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  123. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  124. William James 1842 – 1910
  125. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  126. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  127. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  128. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  129. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  130. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  131. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  132. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  133. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  134. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  135. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  136. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  137. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  138. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  139. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
  140. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  141. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  142. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  143. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  144. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  145. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  146. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  147. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  148. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
  149. Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918
  150. William Herschel 1738 – 1822