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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Russian writer and journalist

Born 15 January 1826 (Julian calendar) · died 28 April 1889 (Julian calendar), aged 63
Also known as Nikolai Shchedrin, Shchedrin, Mikhail Saltykov

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin?

  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. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1826 – 1889
  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. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born, Karl Marx was 7, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 23.

When Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 19 and Leo Tolstoy was 60.

Born during Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 5 years before Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born, Mao Zedong was born about 4 years after Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin died, Charles de Gaulle was born about a year after Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin died and Lord Byron died about 2 years before Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,154 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1858.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  50. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  54. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  55. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  56. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  57. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  59. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  64. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  65. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  66. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  67. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  68. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  69. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  70. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  71. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  72. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  73. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  74. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  75. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  76. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  78. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  79. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  80. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  81. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  82. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  83. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  84. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  85. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  86. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  87. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  88. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  89. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  90. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  91. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  92. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  93. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  94. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  95. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  96. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  97. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  98. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  99. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  100. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  101. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  102. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  103. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  104. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  105. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  106. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  107. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  108. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  109. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  110. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  111. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  112. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  113. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  114. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  115. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  116. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  117. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  118. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  119. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  120. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  121. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  122. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  123. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  124. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  125. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  126. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  127. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  128. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  129. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  130. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  131. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  132. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  133. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  134. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  135. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  136. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  137. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  138. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  139. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  140. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  141. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  142. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  143. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  144. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  145. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  146. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  147. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  148. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  149. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  150. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917