Who Was Alive

Hector Berlioz

French composer and conductor

Born 11 December 1803 · died 8 March 1869, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Hector Berlioz?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Napoleon
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hector Berlioz
  9. Hans Christian Andersen
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Sigmund Freud
  22. Anton Chekhov
  23. Rabindranath Tagore
  24. Marie Curie
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When Hector Berlioz was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 4.

When Hector Berlioz died, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 40, Charles Darwin was 60, Victor Hugo was 67 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

Born during Hector Berlioz’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 10 years after Hector Berlioz died, Vladimir Lenin was born about a year after Hector Berlioz died, Mahatma Gandhi was born months after Hector Berlioz died and Joseph Stalin was born 9 years after Hector Berlioz died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  29. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  30. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  31. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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