Who Was Alive

Gustave Flaubert

French novelist

Born 12 December 1821 · died 8 May 1880, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Gustave Flaubert?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Alexander Pushkin
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Hans Christian Andersen
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Charles Darwin
  8. Charles Dickens
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Gustave Flaubert
  12. Leo Tolstoy
  13. Mark Twain
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. Thomas Edison
  16. Vincent van Gogh
  17. Sigmund Freud
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. Marie Curie
  20. Mahatma Gandhi
  21. Vladimir Lenin
  22. Winston Churchill
  23. Joseph Stalin
  24. Albert Einstein
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When Gustave Flaubert was born, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Charles Darwin was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 19.

When Gustave Flaubert died, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 10 and Leo Tolstoy was 51.

Born during Gustave Flaubert’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 9 years after Gustave Flaubert died, Napoleon died months before Gustave Flaubert was born, Pablo Picasso was born about a year after Gustave Flaubert died and Charlie Chaplin was born 9 years after Gustave Flaubert died.

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  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
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