Who Was Alive

Victoria

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

Born 24 May 1819 · died 22 January 1901, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Victoria?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Victoria
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Victoria was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

When Victoria died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 10 years after Victoria died, Salvador Dalí was born 3 years after Victoria died, Walt Disney was born months after Victoria died and George Orwell was born 2 years after Victoria died.

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All 575 contemporaries we track

  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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  69. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  85. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  93. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  94. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  103. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  111. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  112. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  113. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  122. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  123. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  124. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  125. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  129. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  130. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  131. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  132. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  133. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  134. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  135. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  138. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  139. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  140. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  141. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  142. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  148. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  149. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  150. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930

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