Who Was Alive
George Armstrong Custer
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George Armstrong Custer

American military officer

Born 5 December 1839 · died 25 June 1876, aged 36
Also known as George A. Custer, General Custer, George Custer

Who was alive at the same time as George Armstrong Custer?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. George Armstrong Custer, 1839 – 1876
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  19. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  20. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  21. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  22. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  23. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  24. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

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When George Armstrong Custer was born, Karl Marx was 21, Abraham Lincoln was 30, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 30 and Victor Hugo was 37.

When George Armstrong Custer died, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 67.

Born during George Armstrong Custer’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud and Marie Curie.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 13 years after George Armstrong Custer died, Albert Einstein was born about 3 years after George Armstrong Custer died, Joseph Stalin was born about 2 years after George Armstrong Custer died and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 7 years before George Armstrong Custer was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

841 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as George Armstrong Custer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1858.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  5. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  6. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  17. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  31. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  32. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  33. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  34. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  35. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  38. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  39. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  40. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  41. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  42. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  43. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  44. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  45. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  46. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  47. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  48. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  51. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  52. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  53. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  57. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  58. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  59. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  60. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  61. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  62. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  63. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  64. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  65. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  66. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  67. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  68. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  69. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  70. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  71. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  72. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  73. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  74. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  75. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  76. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  77. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  78. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  79. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  80. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  81. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  82. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  83. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  84. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  85. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  86. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  87. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  88. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  89. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  90. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  91. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  92. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  93. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  94. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  95. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  96. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  97. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  98. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  99. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  100. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  101. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  102. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  103. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  104. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  105. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  106. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  107. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  108. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  109. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  110. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  111. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  112. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  113. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  114. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  115. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  116. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  117. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  118. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  119. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  120. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  121. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  122. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  123. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  124. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  125. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  126. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  127. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  128. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  129. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  130. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  131. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  132. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  133. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  134. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  135. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  136. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  137. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  138. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  139. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  140. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  141. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  142. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  143. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  144. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  145. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  146. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  147. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  148. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  149. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  150. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926