Who Was Alive

Edgar Degas

French Impressionist artist

Born 19 July 1834 · died 27 September 1917, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Edgar Degas?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Edgar Degas
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Vladimir Lenin
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. John F. Kennedy
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When Edgar Degas was born, Karl Marx was 16, Abraham Lincoln was 25, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 25 and Victor Hugo was 32.

When Edgar Degas died, Adolf Hitler was 28, Albert Einstein was 38, Ronald Reagan was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 47 and Mahatma Gandhi was 47.

Born during Edgar Degas’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about a year after Edgar Degas died, Napoleon died 13 years before Edgar Degas was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 2 years before Edgar Degas was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 7 years before Edgar Degas was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
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