Who Was Alive
Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold

British poet and critic

Born 24 December 1822 · died 15 April 1888, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Matthew Arnold?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  17. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Matthew Arnold was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 20.

When Matthew Arnold died, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about a year after Matthew Arnold died, Napoleon died about a year before Matthew Arnold was born, Charlie Chaplin was born about a year after Matthew Arnold died and Mao Zedong was born about 5 years after Matthew Arnold died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,136 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Matthew Arnold. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  51. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  52. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  53. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  54. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  55. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  56. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  57. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  58. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  59. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  60. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  61. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  69. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  70. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  74. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  75. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  76. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  77. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  78. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  79. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  80. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  81. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  86. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  87. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  88. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  89. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  90. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  91. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  92. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  93. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  94. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  95. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  96. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  97. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  98. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  99. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  100. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  101. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  102. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  103. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  104. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  105. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  106. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  107. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  108. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  109. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  110. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  111. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  112. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  113. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  114. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  115. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  116. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  117. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  118. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  119. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  120. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  121. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  122. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  123. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  124. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  125. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  126. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  127. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  128. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  129. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  130. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  131. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  132. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  133. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  134. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  135. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  136. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  137. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  138. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  139. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  140. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  141. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  142. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  143. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  144. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  145. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  146. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  147. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  148. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  149. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  150. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944