Who Was Alive

Mikhail Bakunin

Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher

Born 30 May 1814 · died 1 July 1876, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Bakunin?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Alexander Pushkin
  5. Victor Hugo
  6. Hans Christian Andersen
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Mikhail Bakunin
  11. Karl Marx
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Leo Tolstoy
  14. Mark Twain
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. Thomas Edison
  17. Vincent van Gogh
  18. Sigmund Freud
  19. Anton Chekhov
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. Marie Curie
  22. Mahatma Gandhi
  23. Vladimir Lenin
  24. Winston Churchill
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When Mikhail Bakunin was born, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 12.

When Mikhail Bakunin died, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 67.

Born during Mikhail Bakunin’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 13 years after Mikhail Bakunin died, Albert Einstein was born 3 years after Mikhail Bakunin died, Joseph Stalin was born 2 years after Mikhail Bakunin died and George Washington died 15 years before Mikhail Bakunin was born.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
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