Who Was Alive

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet

Born c. 1806 · died 29 June 1861

Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  9. Hans Christian Andersen
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Karl Marx
  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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

Born during Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 9 years after Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 8 years after Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, George Washington died 5 years before Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 13 years before Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born.

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  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. 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. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  41. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  42. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  43. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  49. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  50. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  51. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  52. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  60. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  61. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  66. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  69. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  70. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  71. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  72. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  74. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  75. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  76. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  77. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  78. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  79. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  80. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  81. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  85. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  86. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  87. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  88. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  89. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  90. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  91. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  92. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  93. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
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  95. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  96. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  98. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
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  103. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
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  105. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  106. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  107. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  108. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  109. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  110. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  111. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  112. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  113. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  114. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  115. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  116. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  117. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  118. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  119. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  120. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  121. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
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  123. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  124. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  125. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  126. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  127. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  128. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  129. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  130. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  131. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  132. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  133. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  134. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  135. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  136. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  137. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  138. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  139. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  140. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  141. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  142. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  143. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  144. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  145. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  146. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  147. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  148. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  149. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
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