Who Was Alive
Emilia Plater
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Emilia Plater

Russian soldier

Born 13 November 1806 · died 23 December 1831, aged 25
Also known as Emilia Plater-Broel, Countess Emilia Plater, Countess Emilia Broel-Plater

Who was alive at the same time as Emilia Plater?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  6. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  7. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  8. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Emilia Plater, 1806 – 1831
  13. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  14. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  15. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  16. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  17. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  18. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Friedrich Engels, 1820 – 1895
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Emilia Plater was born, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 57, Victor Hugo was 4, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

When Emilia Plater died, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 82.

Born during Emilia Plater’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Otto von Bismarck.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 7 years before Emilia Plater was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 15 years before Emilia Plater was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 13 years after Emilia Plater died and Immanuel Kant died about 2 years before Emilia Plater was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

455 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emilia Plater. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1819.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  11. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  12. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  17. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  18. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  19. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  21. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  22. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  24. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  25. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  26. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  27. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  28. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  29. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  30. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  31. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  32. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  33. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  34. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  35. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  36. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  37. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  38. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  39. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  40. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  41. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  42. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  43. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  44. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  45. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  46. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  47. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  48. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  49. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  50. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  51. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  52. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  53. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  54. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  55. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  56. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  57. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  58. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  59. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  60. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  61. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  62. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  63. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  64. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  65. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  66. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  67. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  68. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  69. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  70. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  71. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  72. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  73. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  74. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  75. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  76. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  77. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  78. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  79. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  80. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  81. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  82. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  83. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  84. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  85. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  86. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  87. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  88. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  89. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  90. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  91. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  92. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  93. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  94. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  95. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  96. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  97. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  98. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  99. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  100. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  101. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  102. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  103. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  104. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  105. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  106. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  107. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  108. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  109. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  110. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  111. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  112. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  113. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  114. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  115. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  116. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  117. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  118. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  119. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  120. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  121. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  122. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  123. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  124. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  125. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  126. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  127. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  128. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  129. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  130. George III 1738 – 1820
  131. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  132. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  133. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  134. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  135. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  136. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  137. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  138. Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910
  139. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  140. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  141. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  142. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  143. Harriet Tubman c. 1821 – 1913
  144. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  145. Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
  146. Baháʼu'lláh 1817 – 1892
  147. Jacques Offenbach 1819 – 1880
  148. Paul Heyse 1830 – 1914
  149. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  150. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840