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José de San Martín
The exact author is disputed. Some sources attribute it to Jean Baptiste Madou, others to the art teacher of San Martin', Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

José de San Martín

Argentinian politician who served as President of Peru

Born 25 February 1778 · died 17 August 1850, aged 72
Also known as Don José de San Martín, Libertador General San Martín, General San Martín

Who was alive at the same time as José de San Martín?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  11. José de San Martín, 1778 – 1850
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When José de San Martín was born, Napoleon was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 28, George Washington was 46, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 and Voltaire was 83.

When José de San Martín died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during José de San Martín’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 3 years after José de San Martín died, Sigmund Freud was born about 6 years after José de San Martín died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 11 years after José de San Martín died and Anton Chekhov was born about 10 years after José de San Martín died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

703 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as José de San Martín. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1814.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  25. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  26. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  27. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  28. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  29. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  47. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  55. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  62. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  65. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  66. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  67. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  68. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  69. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  70. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  71. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  72. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  73. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  74. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  75. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  76. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  77. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  78. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  81. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  82. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  83. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  84. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  85. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  86. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  87. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  88. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  89. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  90. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  91. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  92. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  93. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  94. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  95. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  96. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  97. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  98. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  99. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  100. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  101. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  102. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  103. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  104. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  105. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  106. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  107. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  108. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  109. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  110. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  111. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  112. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  113. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  114. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  115. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  116. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  117. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  118. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  119. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  120. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  121. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  122. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  123. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  124. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  125. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  126. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  127. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  128. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  129. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  130. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  131. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  132. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  133. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  134. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  135. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  136. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  137. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  138. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  139. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  140. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  141. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  142. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  143. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  144. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  145. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  146. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  147. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  148. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  149. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  150. William James 1842 – 1910