Who Was Alive
Mikhail Glinka
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Mikhail Glinka

Russian composer

Born 20 May 1804 (Julian calendar) · died 15 February 1857, aged 52
Also known as Michael Glinka, M.I. Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Glinka?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  6. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  7. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  8. Mikhail Glinka, 1804 – 1857
  9. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  10. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  11. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  13. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  14. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  23. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  24. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943

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When Mikhail Glinka was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 4 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Mikhail Glinka died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 54.

Born during Mikhail Glinka’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 13 years after Mikhail Glinka died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 12 years after Mikhail Glinka died, George Washington died about 5 years before Mikhail Glinka was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 13 years before Mikhail Glinka was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

680 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mikhail Glinka. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1831.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  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. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  36. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  37. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  38. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  39. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  40. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  41. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  42. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  43. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  44. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  45. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  46. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  47. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  49. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  50. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  51. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  52. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  53. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  54. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  55. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  56. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  57. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  58. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  59. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  60. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  61. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  62. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  63. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  64. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  65. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  66. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  67. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  68. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  72. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  73. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  74. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  75. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  76. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  77. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  78. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  79. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  80. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  81. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  82. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  83. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  84. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  85. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  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. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  94. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  95. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  96. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  97. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  98. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  99. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  100. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  101. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  102. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  103. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  104. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  105. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  106. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  107. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  108. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  109. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  110. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  111. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  112. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  113. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  114. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  115. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  116. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  117. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  118. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  119. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  120. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  121. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  122. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  123. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  124. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  125. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  126. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  127. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  128. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  129. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  130. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  131. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  132. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  133. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  134. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  135. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  136. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  137. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  138. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  139. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  140. William James 1842 – 1910
  141. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  142. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  143. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  144. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  145. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  146. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  147. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  148. J. J. Thomson 1856 – 1940
  149. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  150. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896