Who Was Alive

Ivan Turgenev

Russian writer

Born 28 October 1818 (Julian calendar) · died 22 August 1883 (Julian calendar), aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Ivan Turgenev?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Charles Dickens
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Ivan Turgenev
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Leo Tolstoy
  12. Mark Twain
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche
  14. Thomas Edison
  15. Vincent van Gogh
  16. Sigmund Freud
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ivan Turgenev was born, Karl Marx was under a year old, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 9 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

When Ivan Turgenev died, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

Born during Ivan Turgenev’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 6 years after Ivan Turgenev died, Charlie Chaplin was born 6 years after Ivan Turgenev died, Immanuel Kant died 14 years before Ivan Turgenev was born and Mao Zedong was born 10 years after Ivan Turgenev died.

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  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  51. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  52. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
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  56. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  57. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
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  59. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  60. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
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  140. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
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  144. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  145. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
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