Who Was Alive
David Brewster
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David Brewster

Scottish astronomer and mathematician

Born 11 December 1781 · died 10 February 1868, aged 86
Also known as Brewster, Sir David Brewster

Who was alive at the same time as David Brewster?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. David Brewster, 1781 – 1868
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  11. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  13. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  14. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  16. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  17. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  20. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  21. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  22. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  23. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  24. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934

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When David Brewster was born, Napoleon was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 32, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 57.

When David Brewster died, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

Born during David Brewster’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 11 years after David Brewster died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 2 years after David Brewster died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about a year after David Brewster died and Joseph Stalin was born about 10 years after David Brewster died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

906 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as David Brewster. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1825.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  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. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  40. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  41. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  42. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  43. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  44. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  48. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  49. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  52. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  54. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  55. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  56. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  57. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  58. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  59. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  60. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  61. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  62. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  68. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  69. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  70. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  71. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  72. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  73. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  74. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  75. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  76. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  77. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  78. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  79. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  80. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  81. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  82. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  83. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  84. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  85. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  86. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  87. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  88. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  89. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  90. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  91. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  92. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  93. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  94. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  95. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  96. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  97. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  98. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  99. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  100. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  101. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  102. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  103. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  104. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  105. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  106. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  107. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  108. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  109. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  110. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  111. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  112. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  113. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  114. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  115. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  116. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  117. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  118. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  119. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  120. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  121. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  122. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  123. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  124. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  125. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  126. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  127. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  128. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  129. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  130. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  131. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  132. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  133. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  134. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  135. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  136. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  137. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  138. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  139. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  140. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  141. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  142. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  143. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  144. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  145. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  146. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  147. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  148. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  149. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  150. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793