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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American writer and women's rights activist

Born 12 November 1815 · died 26 October 1902, aged 86
Also known as Elizabeth Cady

Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815 – 1902
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born, Abraham Lincoln was 6, Napoleon was 46, Charles Darwin was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66 and Victor Hugo was 13.

When Elizabeth Cady Stanton died, Adolf Hitler was 13, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 32, Mahatma Gandhi was 33 and Leo Tolstoy was 74.

Born during Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 9 years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton died, Immanuel Kant died about 11 years before Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born, John F. Kennedy was born about 15 years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton died and Salvador Dalí was born about 2 years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,508 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1859.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  89. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  90. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  91. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  94. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  95. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  96. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  109. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  110. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  111. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  114. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  115. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  116. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  117. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  118. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  119. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  120. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  121. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  122. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  123. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  124. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  125. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  126. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  127. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  130. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  131. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  132. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  143. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  144. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  150. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904