Who Was Alive
Oscar I of Sweden
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Oscar I of Sweden

Monarch of Norway

Born 4 July 1799 · died 8 July 1859, aged 60
Also known as Oscar I, Oskar, Oskar I

Who was alive at the same time as Oscar I of Sweden?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Oscar I of Sweden, 1799 – 1859
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  13. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  14. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  18. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  19. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  21. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  22. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  23. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  24. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939

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When Oscar I of Sweden was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 75 and Alexander Pushkin was under a year old.

When Oscar I of Sweden died, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Oscar I of Sweden’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 11 years after Oscar I of Sweden died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 10 years after Oscar I of Sweden died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 8 years before Oscar I of Sweden was born and Marie Curie was born about 8 years after Oscar I of Sweden died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

734 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Oscar I of Sweden. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1829.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  19. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  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. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  38. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  39. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  40. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  41. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  42. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  43. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  44. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  45. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  46. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  47. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  49. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  60. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  61. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  62. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  63. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  64. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  65. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  66. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  67. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  68. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  69. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  70. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  80. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  81. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  82. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  85. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  86. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  87. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  88. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  89. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  90. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  91. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  92. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  93. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  94. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  95. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  96. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  97. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  98. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  99. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  100. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  101. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  102. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  103. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  104. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  105. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  106. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  107. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  108. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  109. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  110. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  111. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  112. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  113. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  114. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  115. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  116. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  117. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  118. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  119. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  120. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  121. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  122. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  123. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  124. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  125. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  126. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  127. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  128. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  129. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  130. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  131. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  132. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  133. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  134. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  135. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  136. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  137. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  138. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  139. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  140. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  141. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  142. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  143. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  144. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  145. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  146. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  147. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  148. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  149. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  150. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847