Who Was Alive

Emily Dickinson

American poet

Born 10 December 1830 · died 15 May 1886, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Emily Dickinson?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Emily Dickinson
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Rabindranath Tagore
  16. Marie Curie
  17. Mahatma Gandhi
  18. Vladimir Lenin
  19. Winston Churchill
  20. Joseph Stalin
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  22. Albert Einstein
  23. Pablo Picasso
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Emily Dickinson was born, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

When Emily Dickinson died, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 7.

Born during Emily Dickinson’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 3 years after Emily Dickinson died, Napoleon died 9 years before Emily Dickinson was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 3 years before Emily Dickinson was born and Charlie Chaplin was born 3 years after Emily Dickinson died.

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All 429 contemporaries we track

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  34. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  37. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  38. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  41. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  42. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  43. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  44. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  45. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  46. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  47. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  48. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  49. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  50. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  51. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  52. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  53. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  54. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  55. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  56. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  57. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  59. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  60. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  61. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  62. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  63. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  64. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  66. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  67. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  68. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  69. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  70. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  71. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  72. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  73. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  74. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  75. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  76. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  77. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  78. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  79. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  80. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  81. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  82. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  83. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  84. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  85. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  86. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  87. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  88. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  89. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  90. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  91. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  92. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  93. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  94. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  95. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  96. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  97. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  98. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  99. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  100. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  101. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  102. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  103. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  104. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  105. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  106. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  107. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  108. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  109. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  110. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  111. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  112. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  113. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  114. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  115. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  116. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  117. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  118. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  119. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  120. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  121. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  122. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  123. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  124. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  125. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  126. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  127. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  128. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  129. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  130. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  131. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  132. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  133. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  134. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  135. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  136. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  137. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  138. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  139. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  140. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  141. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  142. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  143. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  144. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  145. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  146. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  147. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  148. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  149. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  150. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902

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