Who Was Alive
Paul Morphy
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Paul Morphy

American chess player

Born 22 June 1837 · died 10 July 1884, aged 47
Also known as Paul Charles Morphy

Who was alive at the same time as Paul Morphy?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Paul Morphy, 1837 – 1884
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  16. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  17. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  18. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  19. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  20. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  23. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945

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When Paul Morphy was born, Karl Marx was 19, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

When Paul Morphy died, Albert Einstein was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 14, Mahatma Gandhi was 14, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 5.

Born during Paul Morphy’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 5 years after Paul Morphy died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 5 years before Paul Morphy was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 10 years before Paul Morphy was born and Charlie Chaplin was born about 5 years after Paul Morphy died.

What happened in Paul Morphy’s lifetime

Where Paul Morphy’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

989 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Paul Morphy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1861.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  44. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  49. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  52. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  53. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  55. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  56. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  57. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  58. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  59. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  60. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  62. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  63. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  64. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  65. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  66. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  67. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  68. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  69. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  70. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  71. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  72. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  73. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  74. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  75. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  76. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  77. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  78. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  79. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  80. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  81. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  82. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  83. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  84. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  85. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  86. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  87. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  88. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  89. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  90. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  91. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  92. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  93. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  95. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  96. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  97. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  98. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  99. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  100. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  101. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  102. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  103. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  104. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  105. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  106. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  107. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  108. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  109. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  110. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  111. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  112. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  113. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  114. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  115. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  116. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  117. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  118. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  119. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  120. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  121. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  122. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  123. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  124. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  125. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  126. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  127. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  128. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  129. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  130. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  131. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  132. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  133. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  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. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  146. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  147. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  148. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  149. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  150. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855