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Bahadur Shah Zafar
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Bahadur Shah Zafar

Mughal emperor

Born 24 October 1775 · died 7 November 1862, aged 87
Also known as Bahadur Shah II

Who was alive at the same time as Bahadur Shah Zafar?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  8. Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1775 – 1862
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Bahadur Shah Zafar was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 43, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 19 and Voltaire was 80.

When Bahadur Shah Zafar died, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 34, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

Born during Bahadur Shah Zafar’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 8 years after Bahadur Shah Zafar died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 7 years after Bahadur Shah Zafar died, Winston Churchill was born about 12 years after Bahadur Shah Zafar died and Marie Curie was born about 5 years after Bahadur Shah Zafar died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

847 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bahadur Shah Zafar. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1819.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  25. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  26. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  33. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  37. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  38. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  41. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  42. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  44. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  45. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  46. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  47. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  48. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  49. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  50. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  53. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  55. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  56. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  57. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  58. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  59. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  60. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  61. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  62. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  68. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  69. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  70. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  71. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  72. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  73. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  74. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  75. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  76. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  77. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  78. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  79. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  80. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  81. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  82. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  83. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  84. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  85. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  86. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  87. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  88. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  89. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  90. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  91. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  92. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  93. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  94. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  95. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  96. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  97. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  98. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  99. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  100. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  101. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  102. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  103. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  104. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  105. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  106. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  107. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  108. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  109. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  110. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  111. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  112. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  113. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  114. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  115. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  116. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  117. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  118. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  119. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  120. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  121. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  122. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  123. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  124. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  125. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  126. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  127. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  128. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  129. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  130. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  131. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  132. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  133. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  134. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  135. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  136. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  137. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  138. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  139. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  140. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  141. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  142. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  143. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  144. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  145. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  146. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  147. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  148. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  149. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  150. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903