Who Was Alive

Herman Melville

American writer and poet

Born 1 August 1819 · died 28 September 1891, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Herman Melville?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Herman Melville
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Herman Melville 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 Herman Melville died, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

Born during Herman Melville’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born 13 years after Herman Melville died, Mao Zedong was born 2 years after Herman Melville died, Walt Disney was born 10 years after Herman Melville died and George Orwell was born 12 years after Herman Melville died.

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  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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  64. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
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  75. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  80. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  81. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  82. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  83. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  84. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  85. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  87. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  88. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
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  98. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
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  112. James Watt 1736 – 1819
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  115. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  116. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  120. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  121. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  122. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
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  124. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  125. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  126. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  127. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  128. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  129. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  130. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  131. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  132. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  133. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  134. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  135. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  136. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  137. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  138. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  139. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
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  141. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
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  143. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  144. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  145. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  146. Jack London 1876 – 1916
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