Who Was Alive

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist

Born 29 November 1832 · died 6 March 1888, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Louisa May Alcott?

  1. Alexander Pushkin
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Louisa May Alcott
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Rabindranath Tagore
  16. Marie Curie
  17. Mahatma Gandhi
  18. Vladimir Lenin
  19. Winston Churchill
  20. Joseph Stalin
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  22. Albert Einstein
  23. Pablo Picasso
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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When Louisa May Alcott was born, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 4, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

When Louisa May Alcott died, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

Born during Louisa May Alcott’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about a year after Louisa May Alcott died, Napoleon died 11 years before Louisa May Alcott was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died months before Louisa May Alcott was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 5 years before Louisa May Alcott was born.

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  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  40. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  41. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  42. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  44. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  45. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  46. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  47. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  48. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  49. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
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  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  53. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  54. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  55. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  56. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  58. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  59. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  60. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  61. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  62. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  63. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  64. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  65. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  66. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  67. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  68. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  69. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  70. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  71. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  72. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  73. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  74. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  75. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  76. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  77. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  79. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  80. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  81. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
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  83. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  84. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  85. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  86. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
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  90. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
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  94. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
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  102. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
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  104. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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  112. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  113. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  114. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  115. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  116. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  117. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  118. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
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  120. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  121. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  122. Jack London 1876 – 1916
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  124. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
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  126. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  127. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  128. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
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  132. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  133. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  134. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  135. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  136. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  137. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  138. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  139. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  140. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  141. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  142. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  143. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  144. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  145. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  146. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  147. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  148. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  149. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  150. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918

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