Who Was Alive
Mary Anning
Credited to 'Mr. Grey' in Crispin Tickell's book 'Mary Anning of Lyme Regis' (1996), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mary Anning

British fossil collector

Born 21 May 1799 · died 9 March 1847, aged 47
Also known as Anning

Who was alive at the same time as Mary Anning?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Mary Anning, 1799 – 1847
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  13. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  14. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  17. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Mary Anning was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Thomas Jefferson was 56.

When Mary Anning died, Karl Marx was 28, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 18, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

Born during Mary Anning’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 8 years before Mary Anning was born, Vincent van Gogh was born about 6 years after Mary Anning died, Sigmund Freud was born about 9 years after Mary Anning died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 14 years after Mary Anning died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

611 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mary Anning. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1823.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  40. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  49. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  50. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  51. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  52. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  57. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  58. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  59. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  62. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  63. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  64. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  65. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  66. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  67. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  68. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  69. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  70. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  71. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  72. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  73. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  74. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  75. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  76. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  77. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  78. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  79. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  80. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  81. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  82. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  83. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  84. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  85. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  86. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  87. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  88. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  89. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  90. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  91. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  92. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  93. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  94. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  95. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  96. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  97. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  98. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  99. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  100. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  101. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  102. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  103. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  104. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  105. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  106. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  107. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  108. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  109. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  110. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  111. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  112. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  113. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  114. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  115. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  116. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  117. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  118. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  119. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  120. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  121. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  122. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  123. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  124. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  125. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  126. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  127. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  128. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  129. William James 1842 – 1910
  130. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  131. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  132. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  133. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  134. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  135. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  136. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  137. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  138. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  139. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  140. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  141. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  142. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  143. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  144. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  145. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  146. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  147. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  148. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  149. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  150. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903