Who Was Alive
Gustave Courbet
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Gustave Courbet

French painter

Born 10 June 1819 · died 31 December 1877, aged 58
Also known as G. Courbet, Jean Desire Gustave Courbet, Gustav Courbet

Who was alive at the same time as Gustave Courbet?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Gustave Courbet, 1819 – 1877
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  13. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  14. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  17. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  18. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Gustave Courbet was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

When Gustave Courbet died, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

Born during Gustave Courbet’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 12 years after Gustave Courbet died, Albert Einstein was born about 2 years after Gustave Courbet died, Joseph Stalin was born about a year after Gustave Courbet died and Pablo Picasso was born about 4 years after Gustave Courbet died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

954 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gustave Courbet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1848.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  36. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  37. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  38. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  39. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  40. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  41. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  42. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  43. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  46. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  47. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  48. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  49. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  50. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  51. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  53. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  54. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  55. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  56. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  57. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  58. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  60. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  61. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  62. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  63. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  64. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  65. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  66. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  67. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  68. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  69. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  70. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  71. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  72. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  73. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  74. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  75. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  76. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  77. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  78. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  79. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  80. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  81. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  82. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  83. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  84. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  85. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  86. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  87. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  88. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  89. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  90. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  91. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  92. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  93. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  95. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  96. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  97. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  98. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  99. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  100. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  101. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  102. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  103. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  104. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  105. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  106. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  107. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  108. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  109. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  110. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  111. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  112. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  113. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  114. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  115. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  116. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  117. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  118. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  119. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  120. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  121. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  122. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  123. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  124. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  125. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  126. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  127. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  128. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  129. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  130. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  131. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  132. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  133. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  134. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  135. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  136. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  137. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  138. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  139. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  140. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  141. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  142. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  143. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  144. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  145. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  146. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  147. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  148. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  149. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  150. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901