Who Was Alive

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic

Born 9 April 1821 · died 31 August 1867, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Baudelaire?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Karl Marx
  14. Charles Baudelaire
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Oscar Wilde
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
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When Charles Baudelaire was born, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Napoleon was 51, Charles Darwin was 12 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71.

When Charles Baudelaire died, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

Born during Charles Baudelaire’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud and Rabindranath Tagore.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 12 years after Charles Baudelaire died, Vladimir Lenin was born 3 years after Charles Baudelaire died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 2 years after Charles Baudelaire died and Joseph Stalin was born 11 years after Charles Baudelaire died.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
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  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  54. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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