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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Valeriano Bécquer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Spanish poet

Born 17 February 1836 · died 22 December 1870, aged 34
Also known as Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, Gustavo A. Bécquer

Who was alive at the same time as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer?

  1. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  4. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  13. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, 1836 – 1870
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  18. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  19. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  20. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  21. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  23. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  24. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924

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When Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 61.

Born during Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie and Rabindranath Tagore.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 9 years after Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died, Napoleon died about 15 years before Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born, Joseph Stalin was born about 8 years after Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 4 years before Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

765 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1853.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  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. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  36. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  37. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  38. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  39. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  40. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  41. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  42. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  43. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  44. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  45. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  46. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  47. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  53. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  54. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  65. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  66. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  67. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  68. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  72. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  73. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  74. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  75. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  76. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  77. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  78. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  79. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  80. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  81. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  84. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  85. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  86. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  87. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  88. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  89. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  90. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  96. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  97. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  98. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  99. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  100. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  101. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  102. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  103. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  104. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  105. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  106. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  107. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  108. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  109. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  110. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  111. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  112. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  113. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  114. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  115. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  116. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  117. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  118. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  119. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  120. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  121. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  122. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  123. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  124. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  125. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  126. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  127. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  128. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  129. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  130. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  131. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  132. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  133. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  134. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  135. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  136. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  137. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  138. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  139. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  140. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  141. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  142. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  143. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  144. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  145. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  146. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  147. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  148. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  149. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  150. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910