Who Was Alive

Franz Schubert

Austrian composer

Born 31 January 1797 · died 19 November 1828, aged 31

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Schubert?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Jane Austen
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  9. Lord Byron
  10. Franz Schubert
  11. Alexander Pushkin
  12. Victor Hugo
  13. Hans Christian Andersen
  14. Edgar Allan Poe
  15. Abraham Lincoln
  16. Charles Darwin
  17. Frédéric Chopin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Richard Wagner
  20. Otto von Bismarck
  21. Karl Marx
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Louis Pasteur
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Franz Schubert was born, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 64, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

When Franz Schubert died, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 19 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79.

Born during Franz Schubert’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 6 years before Franz Schubert was born, Mark Twain was born 7 years after Franz Schubert died, Adam Smith died 7 years before Franz Schubert was born and Benjamin Franklin died 7 years before Franz Schubert was born.

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All 208 contemporaries we track

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  37. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  38. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  45. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  46. James Watt 1736 – 1819
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  48. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
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  71. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
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