Who Was Alive
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English poet and illustrator

Born 12 May 1828 · died 9 April 1882, aged 53
Also known as Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Dante Rossetti

Who was alive at the same time as Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 – 1882
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  16. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  17. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  18. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  19. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  20. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  23. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945

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When Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Charles Darwin was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 78 and Victor Hugo was 26.

When Dante Gabriel Rossetti died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

Born during Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 7 years after Dante Gabriel Rossetti died, Napoleon died about 7 years before Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born and Charlie Chaplin was born about 7 years after Dante Gabriel Rossetti died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

986 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  44. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  49. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  50. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  51. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  52. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  54. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  55. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  56. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  57. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  58. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  59. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  61. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  62. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  63. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  64. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  65. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  66. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  67. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  68. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  69. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  70. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  71. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  72. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  73. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  74. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  75. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  76. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  77. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  78. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  79. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  80. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  81. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  82. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  83. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  84. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  85. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  86. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  87. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  88. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  89. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  90. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  91. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  92. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  93. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  94. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  95. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  96. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  97. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  98. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  99. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  100. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  101. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  102. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  103. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  104. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  105. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  106. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  107. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  108. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  109. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  110. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  111. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  112. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  113. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  114. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  115. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  116. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  117. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  118. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  119. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  120. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  121. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  122. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  123. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  124. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  125. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  126. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  127. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  128. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  129. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  130. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  131. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  132. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  133. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  134. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  135. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  136. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  137. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  138. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  139. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  140. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  141. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  142. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  143. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  144. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  145. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  146. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  147. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  148. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  149. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  150. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901