Who Was Alive

James Buchanan

President of the United States from 1857 to 1861

Born 23 April 1791 · died 1 June 1868, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as James Buchanan?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. James Buchanan
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Hans Christian Andersen
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Sigmund Freud
  22. Anton Chekhov
  23. Rabindranath Tagore
  24. Marie Curie
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When James Buchanan was born, Napoleon was 21, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 41, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When James Buchanan died, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 11 years after James Buchanan died, Vladimir Lenin was born 2 years after James Buchanan died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about a year after James Buchanan died and Joseph Stalin was born 10 years after James Buchanan died.

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All 401 contemporaries we track

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  35. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  38. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  39. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  41. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  45. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  46. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  47. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  48. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  49. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  51. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  52. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  53. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  54. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  57. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  58. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  59. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  60. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  61. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  62. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  64. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  65. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  66. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  67. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  68. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  69. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  70. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  71. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  72. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  73. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  74. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  75. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  76. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  77. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  78. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  79. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  80. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  81. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  82. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  83. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  84. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  85. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  86. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  87. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  88. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  89. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  90. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  91. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  92. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  93. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  94. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  95. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  96. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  97. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  98. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  99. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  100. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  101. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  102. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  103. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  104. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  105. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  106. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  107. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  108. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  109. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  110. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  111. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  112. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  113. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  114. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  115. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  116. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  117. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  118. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  119. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  120. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  121. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  122. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  123. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  124. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  125. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  126. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  127. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  128. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  129. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  130. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  131. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  132. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  133. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  134. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  135. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  136. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  137. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  138. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  139. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  140. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  141. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  142. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  143. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  144. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  145. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  146. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  147. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  148. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  149. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  150. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851

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