Who Was Alive
Modest Mussorgsky
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Modest Mussorgsky

Russian composer

Born 9 March 1839 (Julian calendar) · died 16 March 1881 (Julian calendar), aged 42
Also known as Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Moussorgski

Who was alive at the same time as Modest Mussorgsky?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  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. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Modest Mussorgsky, 1839 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  18. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  19. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  20. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  21. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  22. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  23. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  24. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

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When Modest Mussorgsky was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 30, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 30 and Victor Hugo was 37.

When Modest Mussorgsky died, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

Born during Modest Mussorgsky’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 8 years after Modest Mussorgsky died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 7 years before Modest Mussorgsky was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 12 years before Modest Mussorgsky was born and Pablo Picasso was born months after Modest Mussorgsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

906 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Modest Mussorgsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1860.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  36. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  37. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  40. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  41. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  42. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  43. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  44. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  45. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  46. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  47. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  48. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  49. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  50. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  51. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  53. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  54. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  55. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  56. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  57. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  58. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  59. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  60. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  61. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  62. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  63. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  64. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  65. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  66. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  67. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  68. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  69. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  70. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  71. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  72. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  73. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  74. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  75. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  76. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  77. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  78. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  79. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  80. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  81. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  82. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  83. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  84. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  85. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  86. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  87. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  88. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  89. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  90. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  91. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  92. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  93. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  94. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  95. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  96. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  97. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  98. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  99. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  100. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  101. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  102. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  103. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  104. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  105. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  106. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  107. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  108. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  109. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  110. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  111. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  112. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  113. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  114. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  115. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  116. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  117. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  118. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  119. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  120. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  121. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  122. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  123. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  124. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  125. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  126. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  127. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  128. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  129. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  130. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  131. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  132. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  133. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  134. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  135. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  136. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  137. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  138. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  139. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  140. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  141. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  142. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  143. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  144. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  145. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  146. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  147. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  148. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  149. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  150. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949