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Nikolay Nekrasov
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Nikolay Nekrasov

Russian poet and critic

Born 28 November 1821 (Julian calendar) · died 27 December 1877 (Julian calendar), aged 56
Also known as Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov, Nikolay A. Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov

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When Nikolay Nekrasov was born, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Charles Darwin was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 19.

When Nikolay Nekrasov died, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

Born during Nikolay Nekrasov’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 11 years after Nikolay Nekrasov died, Albert Einstein was born about a year after Nikolay Nekrasov died, Napoleon died months before Nikolay Nekrasov was born and Joseph Stalin was born months after Nikolay Nekrasov died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

949 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nikolay Nekrasov. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1850.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  5. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  6. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  41. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  45. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  46. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  47. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  48. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  49. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  50. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  52. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  53. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  54. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  55. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  56. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  57. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  58. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  59. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  60. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  61. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  62. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  69. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  70. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  71. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  72. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  73. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  74. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  75. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  76. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  77. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  78. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  79. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  80. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  81. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  82. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  83. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  84. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  85. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  86. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  87. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  88. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  89. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  90. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  91. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  92. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  93. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  94. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  95. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  96. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  97. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  98. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  99. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  100. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  101. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  102. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  103. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  104. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  105. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  106. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  107. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  108. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  109. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  110. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  111. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  112. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  113. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  114. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  115. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  116. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  117. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  118. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  119. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  120. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  121. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  122. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  123. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  124. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  125. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  126. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  127. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  128. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  129. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  130. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  131. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  132. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  133. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  134. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  135. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  136. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  137. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  138. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  139. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  140. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  141. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  142. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  143. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  144. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  145. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  146. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  147. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  148. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  149. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  150. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952