Who Was Alive

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Leo Tolstoy?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Salvador Dalí
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When Leo Tolstoy was born, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Charles Darwin was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79 and Victor Hugo was 26.

When Leo Tolstoy died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 41 and Joseph Stalin was 31.

Born during Leo Tolstoy’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after Leo Tolstoy died, Nelson Mandela was born 8 years after Leo Tolstoy died, Napoleon died 7 years before Leo Tolstoy was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Leo Tolstoy was born.

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  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  87. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  88. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  92. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  93. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  96. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  97. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  102. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
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  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
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  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  111. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  114. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  115. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  118. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  119. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  120. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  121. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  122. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  123. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  124. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  125. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  126. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  128. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  129. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  130. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
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  132. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  145. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  146. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  147. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
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