Who Was Alive
John Edward Gray
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John Edward Gray

British zoologist

Born 12 February 1800 · died 7 March 1875, aged 75
Also known as Gray, J.E.Gray, John Gray

Who was alive at the same time as John Edward Gray?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  6. John Edward Gray, 1800 – 1875
  7. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  8. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  9. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  10. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  11. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  12. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  14. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  15. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  18. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  19. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  20. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  21. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  22. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  23. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  24. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

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When John Edward Gray was born, Napoleon was 30, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 50, Immanuel Kant was 75, Alexander Pushkin was under a year old and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

When John Edward Gray died, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

Born during John Edward Gray’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 14 years after John Edward Gray died, Albert Einstein was born about 4 years after John Edward Gray died, Joseph Stalin was born about 3 years after John Edward Gray died and George Washington died about a year before John Edward Gray was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

954 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Edward Gray. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1838.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  26. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  44. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  49. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  50. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  53. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  54. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  55. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  56. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  57. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  58. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  59. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  60. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  61. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  62. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  63. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  64. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  65. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  66. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  67. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  68. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  69. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  70. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  71. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  72. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  73. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  74. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  75. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  76. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  77. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  78. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  79. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  80. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  81. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  82. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  83. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  84. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  85. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  86. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  87. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  88. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  89. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  90. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  91. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  92. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  93. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  94. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  95. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  96. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  97. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  98. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  99. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  100. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  101. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  102. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  103. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  104. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  105. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  106. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  107. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  108. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  109. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  110. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  111. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  112. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  113. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  114. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  115. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  116. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  117. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  118. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  119. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  120. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  121. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  122. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  123. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  124. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  125. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  126. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  127. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  128. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  129. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  130. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  131. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  132. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  133. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  134. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  135. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  136. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  137. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  138. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  139. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  140. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  141. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  142. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  143. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  144. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  145. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  146. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  147. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  148. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  149. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  150. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809