Who Was Alive
Jenny Lind
John Carl Frederick Polycarpus Von Schneidau ( Daguerreotype in America by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Dover, 1976, p. 5, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jenny Lind

Swedish opera singer

Born 6 October 1820 · died 2 November 1887, aged 67
Also known as Jenny Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, Johanna Maria Lind

Who was alive at the same time as Jenny Lind?

  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. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Jenny Lind, 1820 – 1887
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Jenny Lind was born, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 11, Napoleon was 51, Charles Darwin was 11 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71.

When Jenny Lind died, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

Born during Jenny Lind’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 about 2 years after Jenny Lind died, Charlie Chaplin was born about 2 years after Jenny Lind died, Mao Zedong was born about 6 years after Jenny Lind died and Charles de Gaulle was born about 3 years after Jenny Lind died.

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Where Jenny Lind’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,135 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jenny Lind. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1854.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. 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. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  50. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  54. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  55. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  56. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  57. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  59. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  64. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  65. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  66. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  67. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  68. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  69. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  70. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  71. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  72. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  73. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  74. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  75. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  76. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  78. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  79. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  80. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  81. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  82. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  83. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  84. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  85. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  86. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  87. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  88. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  89. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  90. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  91. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  92. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  93. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  94. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  95. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  96. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  97. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  98. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  99. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  100. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  101. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  102. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  103. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  104. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  105. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  106. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  107. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  108. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  109. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  110. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  111. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  112. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  113. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  114. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  115. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  116. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  117. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  118. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  119. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  120. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  121. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  122. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  123. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  124. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  125. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  126. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  127. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  128. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  129. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  130. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  131. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  132. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  133. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  134. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  135. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  136. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  137. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  138. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  139. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  140. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  141. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  142. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  143. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  144. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  145. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  146. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  147. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  148. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  149. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  150. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917