Who Was Alive

Were Carl Friedrich Gauss and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Carl Friedrich Gauss and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 26 years, from 1828 to 1855.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was 51 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 26 when Carl Friedrich Gauss died, aged 77.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist

Born 30 April 1777 · died 23 February 1855, aged 77

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Carl Friedrich Gauss 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.