Who Was Alive
Georges Seurat
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Georges Seurat

French painter

Born 2 December 1859 · died 29 March 1891, aged 31
Also known as g. seurat, Seurat, George Pierre Seurat

Who was alive at the same time as Georges Seurat?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Georges Seurat, 1859 – 1891
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Georges Seurat was born, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

When Georges Seurat died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

Born during Georges Seurat’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born about 13 years after Georges Seurat died, Mao Zedong was born about 2 years after Georges Seurat died, Edgar Allan Poe died about 10 years before Georges Seurat was born and Walt Disney was born about 10 years after Georges Seurat died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,017 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Georges Seurat. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1875.

  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  34. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  39. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  40. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  41. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  42. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  44. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  45. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  46. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  47. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  49. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  50. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  51. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  52. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  53. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  54. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  55. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  56. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  57. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  58. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  59. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  60. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  61. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  62. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  63. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  64. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  65. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  67. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  68. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  69. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  70. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  71. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  72. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  73. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  74. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  75. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  76. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  77. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  78. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  79. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  80. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  81. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  82. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  83. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  84. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  85. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  86. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  87. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  88. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  89. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  90. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  91. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  92. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  93. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  94. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  95. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  96. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  97. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  98. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  99. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  100. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  101. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  102. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  103. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  104. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  105. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  106. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  107. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  108. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  109. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  110. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  111. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  112. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  113. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  114. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  115. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  116. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  117. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  118. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  119. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  120. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  121. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  122. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  123. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  124. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  125. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  126. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  127. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  128. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  129. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  130. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  131. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  132. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  133. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  134. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  135. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  136. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  137. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  138. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  139. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  140. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  141. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  142. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  143. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  144. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  145. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  146. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  147. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  148. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  149. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  150. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952