Who Was Alive

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

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

Who was alive at the same time as Nathaniel Hawthorne?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  9. Hans Christian Andersen
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Leo Tolstoy
  17. Mark Twain
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Thomas Edison
  20. Vincent van Gogh
  21. Oscar Wilde
  22. Sigmund Freud
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Nathaniel Hawthorne died, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 15 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne died, Vladimir Lenin was born 6 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 5 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne died and Joseph Stalin was born 14 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne died.

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All 356 contemporaries we track

  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  43. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  44. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  46. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  47. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  48. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  50. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  51. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  52. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  53. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  56. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  57. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  58. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  59. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  60. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  61. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  62. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  63. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  64. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  65. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  66. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  67. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  68. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  69. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  70. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
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  72. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  73. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  74. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
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  76. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
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  84. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  85. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  86. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  87. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  88. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  89. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  90. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  91. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
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  114. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
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  137. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
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