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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

French architect

Born 27 January 1814 · died 17 September 1879, aged 65
Also known as Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le- Duc, Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Who was alive at the same time as Eugène Viollet-le-Duc?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  7. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  8. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  9. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 1814 – 1879
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  13. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  19. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  20. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  21. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  22. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  23. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  24. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

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When Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Eugène Viollet-le-Duc died, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 9 and Leo Tolstoy was 51.

Born during Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 10 years after Eugène Viollet-le-Duc died, George Washington died about 15 years before Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born, Pablo Picasso was born about 2 years after Eugène Viollet-le-Duc died and Charlie Chaplin was born about 10 years after Eugène Viollet-le-Duc died.

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Where Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

988 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1847.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  40. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  41. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  42. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  43. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  44. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  45. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  46. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  47. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  48. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  49. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  50. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  51. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  52. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  53. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  54. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  55. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  56. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  57. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  58. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  59. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  60. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  61. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  62. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  63. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  64. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  65. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  66. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  67. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  68. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  69. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  70. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  71. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  72. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  73. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  74. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  75. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  76. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  77. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  78. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  79. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  80. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  81. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  82. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  83. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  84. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  85. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  86. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  87. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  88. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  89. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  90. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  91. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  92. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  93. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  94. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  95. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  96. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  97. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  98. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  99. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  100. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  101. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  106. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  107. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  108. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  109. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  110. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  111. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  112. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  113. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  114. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  115. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  116. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  117. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  118. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  119. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  120. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  121. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  122. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  123. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  124. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  125. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  126. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  127. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  128. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  129. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  130. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  131. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  132. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  133. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  140. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  141. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  142. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  143. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  144. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  145. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  146. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  147. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  148. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  149. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  150. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918