Who Was Alive

Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist

Born 14 February 1818 · died 20 February 1895, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Frederick Douglass?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Frederick Douglass
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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 Frederick Douglass was born, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 48, Charles Darwin was 9, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68 and Victor Hugo was 15.

When Frederick Douglass died, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

Born during Frederick Douglass’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant died 14 years before Frederick Douglass was born, Salvador Dalí was born 9 years after Frederick Douglass died, Walt Disney was born 6 years after Frederick Douglass died and George Orwell was born 8 years after Frederick Douglass died.

Compare

All 528 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  55. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  60. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  65. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  66. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  67. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  73. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  74. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  75. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  76. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  77. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  78. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  79. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  80. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  81. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  82. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  83. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  84. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  85. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  86. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  87. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  91. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  96. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  97. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  98. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  99. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  100. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  101. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  102. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  103. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  110. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  116. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  117. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  118. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  119. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  125. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  126. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  127. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  128. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  129. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  130. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  131. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  132. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  133. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  134. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  135. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  136. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  137. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  138. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  139. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  140. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  141. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  142. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  143. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  144. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  145. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  146. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  147. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  148. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  149. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  150. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875

The 150 best known are listed.