Who Was Alive

Émile Zola

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet

Born 2 April 1840 · died 29 September 1902, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Émile Zola?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Émile Zola
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Émile Zola was born, Karl Marx was 21, Abraham Lincoln was 31, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 31 and Victor Hugo was 38.

When Émile Zola died, Adolf Hitler was 13, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 32, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 74.

Born during Émile Zola’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 9 years after Émile Zola died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 8 years before Émile Zola was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 13 years before Émile Zola was born and John F. Kennedy was born 15 years after Émile Zola died.

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  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
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  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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