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Maximilian I of Mexico
Original glass negative (LC-BH824-4754) made by Andrew Burgess, one of Mathew Brady's operators, on a trip to Mexico Cit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Maximilian I of Mexico

Emperor of Mexico

Born 6 July 1832 · died 19 June 1867, aged 34
Also known as Fernando Maximiliano de Austria, Fernando José Maximiliano, Maximiliano I

Who was alive at the same time as Maximilian I of Mexico?

  1. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  4. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  9. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  13. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  14. Maximilian I of Mexico, 1832 – 1867
  15. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  18. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  19. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  21. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  22. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  23. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  24. Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947

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When Maximilian I of Mexico was born, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

When Maximilian I of Mexico died, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

Born during Maximilian I of Mexico’s lifetime: Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Anton Chekhov and Oscar Wilde.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 12 years after Maximilian I of Mexico died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 3 years after Maximilian I of Mexico died, Napoleon died about 11 years before Maximilian I of Mexico was born and Mahatma Gandhi was born about 2 years after Maximilian I of Mexico died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

734 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Maximilian I of Mexico. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1850.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  6. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  10. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  11. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  21. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  27. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  28. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  29. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  30. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  31. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  32. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  33. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  34. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  35. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  36. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  37. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  38. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  39. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  40. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  41. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  42. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  43. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  44. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  45. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  49. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  52. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  53. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  54. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  55. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  56. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  57. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  58. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  59. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  60. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  61. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  62. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  63. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  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. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  70. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  71. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  72. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  73. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  74. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  75. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  76. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  77. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  78. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  79. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  80. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  81. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  82. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  83. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  84. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  85. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  86. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  87. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  88. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  89. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  90. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  91. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  92. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  93. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  94. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  95. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  96. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  97. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  98. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  99. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  100. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  101. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  102. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  103. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  104. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  105. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  106. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  107. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  108. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  109. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  110. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  111. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  112. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  113. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  114. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  115. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  116. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  117. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  118. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  119. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  120. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  121. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  122. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  123. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  124. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  125. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  126. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  127. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  128. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  129. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  130. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  131. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  132. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  133. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  134. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  135. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  136. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  137. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  138. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  139. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  140. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  141. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  142. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  143. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  144. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  145. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  146. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  147. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  148. William James 1842 – 1910
  149. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  150. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834