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Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis

Politician who served as President of the Confederate States

Born 3 June 1808 · died 6 December 1889, aged 81
Also known as His Excellency Jefferson Davis, Jefferson F. Davis, Jeff. Davis

Who was alive at the same time as Jefferson Davis?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Jefferson Davis, 1808 – 1889
  6. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  7. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  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 Jefferson Davis was born, Napoleon was 38, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 58, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 8 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

When Jefferson Davis died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

Born during Jefferson Davis’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Charles Darwin.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 9 years before Jefferson Davis was born, Immanuel Kant died about 4 years before Jefferson Davis was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 15 years after Jefferson Davis died and Mao Zedong was born about 4 years after Jefferson Davis died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,208 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jefferson Davis. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1849.

  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  52. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  53. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  54. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  55. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  56. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  64. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  66. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  67. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  68. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  69. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  70. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  71. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  72. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  78. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  79. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  80. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  83. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  84. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  85. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  90. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  91. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  92. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  93. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  94. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  105. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  106. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  107. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  108. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  109. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  110. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  111. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  112. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  113. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  114. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  115. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  116. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  117. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  118. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  119. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  120. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  121. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  122. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  123. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  124. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  125. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  126. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  127. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  130. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  131. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  132. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  133. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  134. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  135. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  142. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  143. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  144. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  145. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  146. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  147. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  148. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  149. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  150. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891