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Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Indian social reformer

Born 22 May 1772 · died 27 September 1833, aged 61
Also known as Ram Mohan Roy, Rammohun Roy, Rammohan Roy

Who was alive at the same time as Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  12. Raja Ram Mohan Roy, 1772 – 1833
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born, Napoleon was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 22, George Washington was 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 16 and Voltaire was 77.

When Raja Ram Mohan Roy died, Karl Marx was 15, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 31.

Born during Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 11 years after Raja Ram Mohan Roy died, Thomas Edison was born about 14 years after Raja Ram Mohan Roy died, Mark Twain was born about 2 years after Raja Ram Mohan Roy died and Sarah Bernhardt was born about 11 years after Raja Ram Mohan Roy died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

565 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1803.

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  42. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  43. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  44. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  52. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  57. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  58. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  59. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  60. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  61. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  62. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  63. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  64. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  65. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  66. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  67. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  68. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  69. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  70. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  71. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  72. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  73. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  74. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  75. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  76. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  77. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  78. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  79. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  80. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  81. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  82. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  83. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  84. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  85. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  86. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  87. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  88. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  89. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  90. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  91. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  92. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  93. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  94. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  95. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  96. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  97. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  98. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  99. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  100. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  101. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  102. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  103. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  104. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  105. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  106. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  107. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  108. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  109. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  110. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  111. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  112. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  113. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  114. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  115. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  116. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  117. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  118. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  119. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  120. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  121. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  122. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  123. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  124. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  125. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  126. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  127. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  128. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  129. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  130. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  131. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  132. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  133. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  134. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  135. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  136. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  137. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  138. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  139. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  140. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  141. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  142. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  143. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  144. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  145. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  146. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  147. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  148. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  149. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  150. John Dalton 1766 – 1844