Who Was Alive

John Keats

English Romantic poet

Born 31 October 1795 · died 23 February 1821, aged 25

Who was alive at the same time as John Keats?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. John Adams
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven
  7. Napoleon
  8. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  9. Jane Austen
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  11. Lord Byron
  12. John Keats
  13. Alexander Pushkin
  14. Victor Hugo
  15. Hans Christian Andersen
  16. Edgar Allan Poe
  17. Abraham Lincoln
  18. Charles Darwin
  19. Frédéric Chopin
  20. Charles Dickens
  21. Richard Wagner
  22. Otto von Bismarck
  23. Karl Marx
  24. Friedrich Engels
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When John Keats was born, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 63, Immanuel Kant was 71 and Thomas Jefferson was 52.

When John Keats died, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Napoleon was 51, Charles Darwin was 12 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71.

Born during John Keats’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 7 years after John Keats died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 4 years before John Keats was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born months after John Keats died and Mark Twain was born 14 years after John Keats died.

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  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  11. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  12. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  13. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  14. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  17. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  21. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  23. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  27. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  28. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  29. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  30. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  31. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  32. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  33. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  34. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  35. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  36. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  37. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  38. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  39. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  40. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  41. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  42. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  43. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  44. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  45. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  46. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  47. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  48. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  49. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  50. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  51. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  52. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  53. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  54. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  55. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  56. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  57. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  58. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  59. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  60. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  61. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  62. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  63. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  64. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  65. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  66. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  67. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  68. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  69. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  70. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  71. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  72. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  73. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  74. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  75. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  76. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  77. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  78. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  79. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  81. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  82. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  83. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  84. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  85. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  86. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  87. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  88. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  89. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  90. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  91. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  92. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  93. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  94. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  95. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  96. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  97. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  98. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  99. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  100. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  101. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  102. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  103. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  104. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  105. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  106. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  107. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  108. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  109. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  110. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  111. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  112. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  113. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  114. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  115. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  116. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  117. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  118. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  119. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  120. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  121. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  122. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  123. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
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  126. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  127. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  128. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  129. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  130. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  131. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  132. Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
  133. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  134. Baháʼu'lláh 1817 – 1892
  135. Jacques Offenbach 1819 – 1880
  136. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  137. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  138. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  139. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  140. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  141. Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
  142. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  143. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  144. Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
  145. David Livingstone 1813 – 1873
  146. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  147. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  148. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  149. William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898
  150. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851

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