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Imam Shamil
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Imam Shamil

Imam and warrior

Born 26 June 1797 (Julian calendar) · died 4 February 1871 (Julian calendar), aged 73
Also known as Shamil, Schamyl, Shamyl

Who was alive at the same time as Imam Shamil?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  5. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  6. Imam Shamil, 1797 – 1871
  7. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  8. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  9. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  10. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  11. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  12. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  16. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  19. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Imam Shamil was born, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

When Imam Shamil died, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

Born during Imam Shamil’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 8 years after Imam Shamil died, Joseph Stalin was born about 7 years after Imam Shamil died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 6 years before Imam Shamil was born and Pablo Picasso was born about 10 years after Imam Shamil died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

898 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Imam Shamil. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1834.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  46. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  47. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  48. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  49. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  50. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  52. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  53. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  54. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  55. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  56. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  57. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  58. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  59. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  60. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  61. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  62. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  68. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  69. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  70. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  71. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  72. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  73. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  74. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  75. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  76. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  77. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  78. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  79. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  80. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  81. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  82. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  83. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  84. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  85. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  86. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  87. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  88. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  89. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  90. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  91. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  92. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  93. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  94. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  95. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  96. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  97. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  98. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  99. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  100. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  101. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  102. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  103. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  104. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  105. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  106. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  107. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  108. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  109. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  110. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  111. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  112. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  113. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  114. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  115. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  116. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  117. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  118. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  119. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  120. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  121. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  122. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  123. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  124. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  125. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  126. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  127. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  128. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  129. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  130. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  131. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  132. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  133. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  134. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  135. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  136. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  137. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  138. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  139. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  140. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  141. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  142. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  143. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  144. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  145. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  146. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  147. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  148. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  149. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  150. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867