Who Was Alive
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British novelist

Born 25 May 1803 · died 18 January 1873, aged 69
Also known as Owen Meredith, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pisistratus Caxton

Who was alive at the same time as Edward Bulwer-Lytton?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 – 1873
  8. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  9. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  10. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  11. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  12. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  14. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  15. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  18. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  19. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  20. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  21. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  23. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  24. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924

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When Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born, Napoleon was 33, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 53, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

When Edward Bulwer-Lytton died, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 6 years after Edward Bulwer-Lytton died, Joseph Stalin was born about 5 years after Edward Bulwer-Lytton died, George Washington died about 4 years before Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 12 years before Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

908 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1838.

  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. 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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  35. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  38. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  39. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  41. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  42. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  43. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  44. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  45. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  46. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  47. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  48. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  49. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  52. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  53. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  55. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  56. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  57. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  58. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  59. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  60. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  62. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  63. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  64. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  65. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  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. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  76. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  77. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  78. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  79. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  80. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  81. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  82. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  83. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  84. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  85. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  86. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  87. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  88. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  89. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  90. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  91. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  92. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  93. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  95. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  96. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  97. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  98. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  99. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  100. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  101. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  102. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  103. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  104. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  105. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  106. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  107. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  108. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  109. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  110. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  111. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  112. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  113. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  114. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  115. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  116. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  117. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  118. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  119. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  120. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  121. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  122. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  123. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  124. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  125. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  126. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  127. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  128. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  129. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  130. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  131. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  132. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  133. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  134. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  135. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  136. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  137. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  138. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  139. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  140. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  141. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  142. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  143. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  144. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  145. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  146. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  147. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  148. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  149. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  150. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855