Who Was Alive

Were Évariste Galois and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Évariste Galois and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 3 years, from 1828 to 1832.

Évariste Galois was 16 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 3 when Évariste Galois died, aged 20.

Évariste Galois

French mathematician

Born 25 October 1811 · died 31 May 1832, aged 20

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Évariste Galois
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Évariste Galois and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.