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Bernardo O'Higgins
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Bernardo O'Higgins

Chilean soldier

Born 20 August 1778 · died 24 October 1842, aged 64
Also known as O'Higgins, Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, O 'Higgins

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When Bernardo O'Higgins was born, Napoleon was 9, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 46, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 and Immanuel Kant was 54.

When Bernardo O'Higgins died, Karl Marx was 24, Abraham Lincoln was 33, Leo Tolstoy was 14, Charles Darwin was 33 and Victor Hugo was 40.

Born during Bernardo O'Higgins’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 11 years after Bernardo O'Higgins died, Voltaire died months before Bernardo O'Higgins was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 2 years after Bernardo O'Higgins died and Thomas Edison was born about 5 years after Bernardo O'Higgins died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

629 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bernardo O'Higgins. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1810.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  42. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  43. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  44. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  45. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  46. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  47. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  48. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  49. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  50. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  51. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  52. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  53. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  54. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  55. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  56. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  57. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  58. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  59. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  62. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  63. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  64. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  65. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  66. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  67. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  68. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  69. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  70. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  71. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  72. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  73. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  74. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  75. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  76. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  79. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  80. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  81. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  82. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  83. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  84. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  85. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  86. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  87. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  88. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  89. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  90. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  91. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  92. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  93. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  94. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  95. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  96. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  97. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  98. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  99. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  100. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  101. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  102. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  103. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  104. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  105. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  106. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  107. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  108. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  109. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  110. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  111. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  112. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  113. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  114. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  115. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  116. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  117. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  118. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  119. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  120. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  121. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  122. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  123. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  124. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  125. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  126. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  127. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  128. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  129. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  130. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  131. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  132. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  133. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  134. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  135. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  136. William James 1842 – 1910
  137. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  138. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  139. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  140. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  141. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  142. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  143. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  144. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  145. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  146. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  147. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  148. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  149. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  150. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900