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Georges Bizet

French composer

Born 25 October 1838 · died 3 June 1875, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Georges Bizet?

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When Georges Bizet was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

When Georges Bizet died, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

Born during Georges Bizet’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 14 years after Georges Bizet died, Albert Einstein was born 4 years after Georges Bizet died, Joseph Stalin was born 3 years after Georges Bizet died and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 6 years before Georges Bizet was born.

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  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 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. 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. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  38. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  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. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  52. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  53. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  54. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  55. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  56. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  57. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  60. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  61. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  62. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  63. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  64. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  65. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  66. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  67. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  68. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  69. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  70. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  71. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  72. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  73. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  74. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  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. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  84. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  85. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  86. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  87. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  88. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  89. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  90. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  91. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
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  93. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
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  134. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
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  136. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  137. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  138. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  139. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  140. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  141. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  142. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  143. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  144. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  145. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  146. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  147. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  148. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  149. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
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