Who Was Alive
Ivar Aasen
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Ivar Aasen

Norwegian linguist and poet

Born 5 August 1813 · died 23 September 1896, aged 83
Also known as Ivar Andreas Aasen, Ivar Andreas Åsen

Who was alive at the same time as Ivar Aasen?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Ivar Aasen, 1813 – 1896
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Ivar Aasen was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Ivar Aasen died, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

Born during Ivar Aasen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 15 years after Ivar Aasen died, George Washington died about 14 years before Ivar Aasen was born, Immanuel Kant died about 9 years before Ivar Aasen was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 8 years after Ivar Aasen died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,347 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ivar Aasen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. 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. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  67. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  68. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  69. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  83. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  84. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  88. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  89. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  98. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  99. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  100. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  101. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  102. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  103. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  104. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  105. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  106. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  107. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  108. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  109. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  110. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  111. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  117. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  121. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  122. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  123. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  124. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  125. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  128. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  129. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  130. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  131. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  134. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  135. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  136. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  137. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  138. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  139. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  140. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  141. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  142. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  143. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  144. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  145. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  146. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  147. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  148. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  149. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  150. Jack London 1876 – 1916