Who Was Alive

Joseph Smith

American religious leader and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement

Born 23 December 1805 · died 27 June 1844, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Smith?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Jane Austen
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Hans Christian Andersen
  11. Joseph Smith
  12. Edgar Allan Poe
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Frédéric Chopin
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. Richard Wagner
  18. Otto von Bismarck
  19. Karl Marx
  20. Friedrich Engels
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Louis Pasteur
  23. Leo Tolstoy
  24. Mark Twain
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When Joseph Smith was born, Napoleon was 36, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 56, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 6 and Hans Christian Andersen was under a year old.

When Joseph Smith died, Karl Marx was 26, Abraham Lincoln was 35, Leo Tolstoy was 15, Charles Darwin was 35 and Victor Hugo was 42.

Born during Joseph Smith’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 6 years before Joseph Smith was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 14 years before Joseph Smith was born, Vincent van Gogh was born 9 years after Joseph Smith died and Friedrich Nietzsche was born months after Joseph Smith died.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  16. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  17. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  18. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  19. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  34. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  49. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  50. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  51. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  52. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  53. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  54. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  55. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  56. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  57. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  58. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  59. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  60. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
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  62. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  63. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  64. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  65. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  66. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  67. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  68. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  69. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  70. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  71. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
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  73. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  75. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  76. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
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  78. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  79. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  80. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
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  84. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
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  89. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
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  114. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  115. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  116. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
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  118. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  119. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
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  127. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  128. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
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  131. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  132. Pius X 1835 – 1914
  133. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  134. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  135. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  136. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  137. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  138. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  139. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  140. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
  141. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  142. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  143. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
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  148. Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919
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