Who Was Alive

George Boole

English mathematician, philosopher and logician

Born 2 November 1815 · died 8 December 1864, aged 49

Who was alive at the same time as George Boole?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. George Boole
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Oscar Wilde
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
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When George Boole was born, Abraham Lincoln was 6, Napoleon was 46, Charles Darwin was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 66 and Victor Hugo was 13.

When George Boole died, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 36, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

Born during George Boole’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 15 years after George Boole died, Vladimir Lenin was born 6 years after George Boole died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 5 years after George Boole died and Joseph Stalin was born 14 years after George Boole died.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  43. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  44. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  45. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  46. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  47. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  49. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  57. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  60. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  61. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  62. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  63. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  64. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  65. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  66. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  67. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  68. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  69. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  70. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  71. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  72. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  73. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  74. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  75. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  76. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  77. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  78. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  79. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  80. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  81. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  82. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  83. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  84. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  85. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  88. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  89. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  90. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  91. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  92. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  93. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  94. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  95. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  96. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  97. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
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  100. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
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  104. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  105. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  106. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  107. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  108. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  109. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
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  111. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  112. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  113. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  114. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  116. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  117. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  118. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  119. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  120. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  121. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  122. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  123. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  124. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  125. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  126. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  127. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  128. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  129. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  130. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  131. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  132. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  133. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  134. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  135. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  136. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  137. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  138. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  139. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  140. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  141. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  142. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  143. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  144. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  145. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  146. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  147. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  148. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  149. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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