Who Was Alive
Pedro II of Brazil
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Pedro II of Brazil

Emperor of Brazil

Born 2 December 1825 · died 5 December 1891, aged 66
Also known as Pedro II

Who was alive at the same time as Pedro II of Brazil?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Pedro II of Brazil, 1825 – 1891
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Pedro II of Brazil was born, Karl Marx was 7, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 23.

When Pedro II of Brazil died, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

Born during Pedro II of Brazil’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 4 years before Pedro II of Brazil was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 13 years after Pedro II of Brazil died, Mao Zedong was born about 2 years after Pedro II of Brazil died and Lord Byron died about a year before Pedro II of Brazil was born.

What happened in Pedro II of Brazil’s lifetime

Where Pedro II of Brazil’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,206 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pedro II of Brazil. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1858.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  64. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  66. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  67. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  68. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  69. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  70. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  71. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  72. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  78. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  79. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  80. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  83. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  84. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  85. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  90. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  91. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  92. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  93. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  94. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  105. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  106. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  107. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  108. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  109. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  110. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  111. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  112. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  113. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  119. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  120. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  121. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  122. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  123. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  124. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  125. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  126. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  127. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  128. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  129. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  130. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  131. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  135. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  142. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  143. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  144. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  145. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  146. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  147. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  148. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  149. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  150. André Gide 1869 – 1951