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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

German mathematician

Born 13 February 1805 · died 5 May 1859, aged 54
Also known as Dirichlet

Who was alive at the same time as Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  6. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  7. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  8. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, 1805 – 1859
  9. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  10. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  11. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  13. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  14. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  23. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  24. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943

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When Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born, Napoleon was 35, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 55, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet died, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 11 years after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 10 years after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet died, George Washington died about 6 years before Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 14 years before Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

717 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1832.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  40. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  41. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  42. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  43. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  44. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  45. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  46. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  47. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  48. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  49. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  57. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  58. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  59. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  60. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  61. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  62. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  63. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  64. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  65. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  66. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  67. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  68. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  69. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  70. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  71. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  74. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  75. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  76. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  77. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  78. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  81. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  82. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  83. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  84. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  85. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  86. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  87. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  88. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  89. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  90. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  96. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  97. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  98. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  99. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  100. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  101. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  102. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  103. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  104. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  105. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  106. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  107. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  108. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  110. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  111. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  112. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  113. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  114. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  115. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  116. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  117. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  118. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  119. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  120. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  121. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  122. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  123. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  124. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  125. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  126. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  127. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  128. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  129. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  130. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  131. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  132. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  133. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  134. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  135. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  136. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  137. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  138. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  139. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  140. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  141. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  142. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  143. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  144. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  145. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  146. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  147. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  148. William James 1842 – 1910
  149. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  150. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834