Who Was Alive
Lajos Kossuth
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Lajos Kossuth

Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary

Born 19 September 1802 · died 20 March 1894, aged 91
Also known as Louis Kossuth, Kossuth Lajos

Who was alive at the same time as Lajos Kossuth?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Lajos Kossuth, 1802 – 1894
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Lajos Kossuth was born, Napoleon was 33, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 53, Victor Hugo was under a year old, Immanuel Kant was 78 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

When Lajos Kossuth died, Adolf Hitler was 4, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 23, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

Born during Lajos Kossuth’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Charles Darwin.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 3 years before Lajos Kossuth was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 11 years before Lajos Kossuth was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 10 years after Lajos Kossuth died and Adam Smith died about 12 years before Lajos Kossuth was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,312 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lajos Kossuth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1848.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  85. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  90. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  91. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  92. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  101. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  102. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  103. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  104. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  105. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  106. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  107. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  108. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  112. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  113. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  114. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  115. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  116. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  117. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  118. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  119. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  120. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  121. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  122. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  125. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  126. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  127. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  132. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  134. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  135. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  136. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  137. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  140. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  141. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  142. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  143. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  144. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  146. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  147. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  148. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  149. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  150. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862