Who Was Alive
Honoré Daumier
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Honoré Daumier

French artist

Born 26 February 1808 · died 10 February 1879, aged 70
Also known as Daumier, Honore Victorin Daumier, H. Daumier

Who was alive at the same time as Honoré Daumier?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  7. Honoré Daumier, 1808 – 1879
  8. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  9. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  10. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  11. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  13. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  14. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  17. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  18. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  19. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  20. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  21. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  22. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  23. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  24. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953

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 Honoré Daumier was born, Napoleon was 38, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 58, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 8 and Hans Christian Andersen was 2.

When Honoré Daumier died, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 8, Mahatma Gandhi was 9, Leo Tolstoy was 50 and Charles Darwin was 69.

Born during Honoré Daumier’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 10 years after Honoré Daumier died, Albert Einstein was born months after Honoré Daumier died, George Washington died about 9 years before Honoré Daumier was born and Pablo Picasso was born about 2 years after Honoré Daumier died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

989 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Honoré Daumier. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1844.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  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
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  26. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  44. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  49. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  50. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  53. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  55. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  56. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  57. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  58. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  59. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  60. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  62. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  63. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  64. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  65. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  67. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  68. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  69. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  70. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  71. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  72. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  73. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  74. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  75. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  76. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  77. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  78. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  79. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  80. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  81. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  82. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  83. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  84. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  85. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  86. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  87. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  88. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  89. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  90. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  91. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  92. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  93. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  94. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  95. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  96. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  97. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  98. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  99. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  100. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  101. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  106. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  107. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  108. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  109. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  110. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  111. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  112. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  113. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  114. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  115. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  116. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  117. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  118. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  119. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  120. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  121. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  122. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  123. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  124. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  125. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  126. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  127. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  128. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  129. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  130. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  131. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  132. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  133. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  140. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  141. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  142. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  143. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  144. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  145. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  146. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  147. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  148. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  149. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  150. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918