Who Was Alive
Bernadette Soubirous
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Bernadette Soubirous

French nun

Born 7 January 1844 · died 16 April 1879, aged 35
Also known as Bernadeta Sobirós, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, Bernadeta Sobiros

Who was alive at the same time as Bernadette Soubirous?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844 – 1879
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  18. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  19. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  20. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  21. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  22. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  23. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  24. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

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When Bernadette Soubirous was born, Karl Marx was 25, Abraham Lincoln was 34, Leo Tolstoy was 15, Charles Darwin was 34 and Victor Hugo was 41.

When Bernadette Soubirous died, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 8, Mahatma Gandhi was 9 and Leo Tolstoy was 50.

Born during Bernadette Soubirous’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 10 years after Bernadette Soubirous died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 12 years before Bernadette Soubirous was born, Pablo Picasso was born about 2 years after Bernadette Soubirous died and Charlie Chaplin was born about 10 years after Bernadette Soubirous died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

858 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bernadette Soubirous. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1862.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  36. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  37. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  40. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  41. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  42. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  43. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  44. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  46. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  47. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  48. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  49. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  50. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  51. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  52. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  53. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  54. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  55. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  56. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  57. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  58. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  59. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  60. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  61. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  62. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  63. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  64. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  65. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  66. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  67. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  68. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  69. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  70. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  71. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  72. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  73. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  74. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  75. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  76. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  77. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  78. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  79. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  80. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  82. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  83. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  84. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  85. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  86. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  87. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  88. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  89. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  90. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  91. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  92. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  93. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  94. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  95. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  96. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  97. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  98. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  99. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  100. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  101. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  102. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  103. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  104. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  105. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  106. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  107. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  108. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  109. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  110. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  111. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  112. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  113. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  114. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  115. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  116. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  117. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  118. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  119. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  120. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  121. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  122. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  123. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  124. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  125. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  126. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  127. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  128. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  129. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  130. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  131. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  132. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  133. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  134. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  135. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  136. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  137. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  138. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  139. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  140. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  141. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  142. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  143. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  144. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  145. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  146. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  147. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  148. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  149. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  150. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917