Who Was Alive

Charles Babbage

English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer

Born 26 December 1791 · died 18 October 1871, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Babbage?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Napoleon
  6. Charles Babbage
  7. Alexander Pushkin
  8. Victor Hugo
  9. Hans Christian Andersen
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Karl Marx
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Leo Tolstoy
  16. Mark Twain
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Thomas Edison
  19. Vincent van Gogh
  20. Sigmund Freud
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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When Charles Babbage was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Immanuel Kant was 67 and Thomas Jefferson was 48.

When Charles Babbage died, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 43 and Charles Darwin was 62.

Born during Charles Babbage’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 8 years after Charles Babbage died, Joseph Stalin was born 7 years after Charles Babbage died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died months before Charles Babbage was born and Pablo Picasso was born 10 years after Charles Babbage died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  26. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
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