Who Was Alive

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter

Born 3 October 1814 (Julian calendar) · died 15 July 1841 (Julian calendar), aged 26

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Lermontov?

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When Mikhail Lermontov was born, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 45, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 65 and Victor Hugo was 12.

When Mikhail Lermontov died, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 12, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 39.

Born during Mikhail Lermontov’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Otto von Bismarck, Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels and Alfred Nobel.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 15 years before Mikhail Lermontov was born, Vincent van Gogh was born 12 years after Mikhail Lermontov died, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 3 years after Mikhail Lermontov died and Thomas Edison was born 6 years after Mikhail Lermontov died.

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  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  16. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  17. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  18. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  19. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  34. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  49. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  50. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  53. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  56. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  58. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  61. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  62. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  63. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  64. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  65. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  66. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
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  68. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
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  71. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  72. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
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  75. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
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  81. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
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