Who Was Alive

Niels Henrik Abel

Norwegian mathematician

Born 5 August 1802 · died 6 April 1829, aged 26

Who was alive at the same time as Niels Henrik Abel?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Napoleon
  6. Jane Austen
  7. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  8. Lord Byron
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Niels Henrik Abel
  12. Hans Christian Andersen
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Abraham Lincoln
  15. Charles Darwin
  16. Frédéric Chopin
  17. Charles Dickens
  18. Richard Wagner
  19. Otto von Bismarck
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Friedrich Engels
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Louis Pasteur
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Niels Henrik Abel was born, Napoleon was 32, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 52, Victor Hugo was under a year old, Immanuel Kant was 78 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

When Niels Henrik Abel died, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 20, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 20 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79.

Born during Niels Henrik Abel’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died 3 years before Niels Henrik Abel was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 11 years before Niels Henrik Abel was born, Mark Twain was born 6 years after Niels Henrik Abel died and Adam Smith died 12 years before Niels Henrik Abel was born.

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  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. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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
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  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
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  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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