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Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
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Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi

Queen of Jhansi

Born 1826–1830 · died 17 June 1858
Also known as Rani Lakshmibai, Manikarnika, Lakshmi Bai

Who was alive at the same time as Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  3. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  6. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  10. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  11. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  12. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  13. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  15. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  16. Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, c. 1828 – 1858
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  23. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  24. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943

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When Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi died, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

Born during Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi’s lifetime: Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Nikola Tesla and Sarah Bernhardt.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 12 years after Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi died, Napoleon died about 5 years before Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi was born, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 11 years after Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi died and Marie Curie was born about 9 years after Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi died.

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Where Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

622 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1844.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  11. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  29. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  30. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  31. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  32. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  37. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  41. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  42. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  45. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  49. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  50. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  51. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  52. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  53. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  54. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  55. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  56. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  57. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  58. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  59. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  60. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  61. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  62. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  63. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  64. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  65. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  66. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  67. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  68. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  69. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  70. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  71. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  72. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  73. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  74. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  75. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  76. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  77. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  78. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  79. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  80. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  81. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  82. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  83. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  84. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  85. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  86. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  87. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  88. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  89. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  90. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  91. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  92. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  93. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  94. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  95. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  96. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  97. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  98. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  99. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  100. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  101. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  102. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  103. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  104. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  105. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  106. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  107. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  108. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  109. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  110. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  111. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  112. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  113. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  114. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  115. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  116. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  117. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  118. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  119. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  120. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  121. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  122. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  123. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  124. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  125. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  126. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  127. William James 1842 – 1910
  128. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  129. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  130. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  131. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  132. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  133. Pope Pius XI 1857 – 1939
  134. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  135. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  136. J. J. Thomson 1856 – 1940
  137. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  138. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  139. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  140. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  141. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  142. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  143. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  144. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
  145. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  146. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  147. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  148. Hendrik Lorentz 1853 – 1928
  149. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  150. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883