Who Was Alive

John Tyler

President of the United States from 1841 to 1845

Born 29 March 1790 · died 18 January 1862, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as John Tyler?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven
  7. Napoleon
  8. John Tyler
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Abraham Lincoln
  13. Charles Darwin
  14. Charles Dickens
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
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When John Tyler was born, Napoleon was 20, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 40, George Washington was 58, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 34 and Immanuel Kant was 65.

When John Tyler died, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 33, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 8 years after John Tyler died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 7 years after John Tyler died, Winston Churchill was born 12 years after John Tyler died and Voltaire died 12 years before John Tyler was born.

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All 362 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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  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. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  45. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  46. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  47. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  48. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  49. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  50. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  51. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  52. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  53. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  54. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  55. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  56. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  57. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  58. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  59. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  60. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  61. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  62. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  63. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  64. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  65. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  66. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  67. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  68. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  69. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  70. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  71. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  72. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  73. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  74. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  75. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  76. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  77. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  78. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  79. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  80. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  82. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  83. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  84. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  85. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  86. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  87. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  88. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  89. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  90. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  91. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  92. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  93. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  94. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  95. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  96. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  97. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  98. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  99. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  100. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  101. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  102. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  103. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  104. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  105. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  106. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  107. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  108. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  109. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  110. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  111. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  112. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  113. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  114. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  115. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  116. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  117. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  118. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  119. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  120. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  121. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  122. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  123. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  124. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  125. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  126. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  127. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  128. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  129. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  130. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  131. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  132. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  133. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  134. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  135. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  136. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  137. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  138. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  139. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  140. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  141. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  142. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  143. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  144. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  145. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  146. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  147. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  148. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  149. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  150. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941

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