Who Was Alive
Hiroshige
Utagawa Kunisada, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hiroshige

Japanese ukiyo-e artist

Born 1797 · died 12 October 1858, aged 60 or 61
Also known as Utagawa Hiroshige, Andō Hiroshige, Ando

Who was alive at the same time as Hiroshige?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Hiroshige, 1797 – 1858
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  13. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  14. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  18. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  19. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  21. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  22. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  23. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  24. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Hiroshige was born, Napoleon was 27 or 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47 or 48, George Washington was 64 or 65, Immanuel Kant was 72 or 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 53 or 54.

When Hiroshige died, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

Born during Hiroshige’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 12 years after Hiroshige died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 11 years after Hiroshige died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 6 years before Hiroshige was born and Marie Curie was born about 9 years after Hiroshige died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

728 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hiroshige. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1828.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  38. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  40. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  41. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  42. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  47. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  62. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  65. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  66. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  67. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  68. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  69. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  70. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  71. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  72. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  73. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  74. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  75. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  76. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  77. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  78. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  81. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  82. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  83. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  84. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  85. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  86. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  87. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  88. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  89. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  90. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  91. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  92. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  93. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  94. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  95. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  96. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  97. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  98. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  99. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  100. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  101. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  102. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  103. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  104. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  105. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  106. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  107. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  108. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  109. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  110. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  111. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  112. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  113. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  114. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  115. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  116. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  117. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  118. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  119. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  120. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  121. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  122. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  123. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  124. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  125. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  126. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  127. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  128. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  129. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  130. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  131. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  132. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  133. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  134. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  135. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  136. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  137. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  138. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  139. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  140. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  141. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  142. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  143. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  144. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  145. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  146. William James 1842 – 1910
  147. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  148. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  149. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  150. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907