Who Was Alive

Were Nathaniel Hawthorne and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 35 years, from 1828 to 1864.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was 24 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 35 when Nathaniel Hawthorne died, aged 59.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

Born 4 July 1804 · died 19 May 1864, aged 59

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.