Who Was Alive
Jules Michelet
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Jules Michelet

French historian

Born 22 August 1798 · died 9 February 1874, aged 75
Also known as Zhiul Mishle

Who was alive at the same time as Jules Michelet?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  5. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  6. Jules Michelet, 1798 – 1874
  7. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  8. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  9. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  10. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  11. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  12. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  16. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  19. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  21. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  23. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  24. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924

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When Jules Michelet was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

When Jules Michelet died, Karl Marx was 55, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 45 and Charles Darwin was 64.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 5 years after Jules Michelet died, Joseph Stalin was born about 4 years after Jules Michelet died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 7 years before Jules Michelet was born and Pablo Picasso was born about 7 years after Jules Michelet died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

936 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jules Michelet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1836.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  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. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  83. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  84. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  85. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  86. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  87. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  88. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  89. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  90. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  91. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  92. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  93. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  94. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  95. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  96. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  97. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  98. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  99. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  100. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  101. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  102. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  103. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  104. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  105. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  106. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  107. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  108. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  109. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  110. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  111. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  112. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  113. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  114. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  115. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  116. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  117. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  118. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  119. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  120. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  121. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  122. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  123. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  124. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  125. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  126. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  127. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  128. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  129. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  130. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  131. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  132. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  133. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  134. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  135. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  136. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  137. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  138. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  139. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  140. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  141. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  142. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  143. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  144. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  145. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  146. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  147. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  148. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  149. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  150. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869