Who Was Alive

Ramakrishna

Indian mystic and religious preacher

Born 18 February 1836 · died 16 August 1886, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Ramakrishna?

  1. Alexander Pushkin
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Ramakrishna
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Rabindranath Tagore
  16. Marie Curie
  17. Mahatma Gandhi
  18. Vladimir Lenin
  19. Winston Churchill
  20. Joseph Stalin
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  22. Albert Einstein
  23. Pablo Picasso
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ramakrishna was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Ramakrishna died, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 7.

Born during Ramakrishna’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 3 years after Ramakrishna died, Napoleon died 15 years before Ramakrishna was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 4 years before Ramakrishna was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 9 years before Ramakrishna was born.

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All 418 contemporaries we track

  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  40. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  41. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  42. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  43. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  44. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  45. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  46. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  47. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  48. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  49. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  52. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  53. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  54. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  55. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  57. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  58. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  59. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  60. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  61. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  62. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  64. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  65. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  66. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  67. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  68. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  69. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  70. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  71. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  72. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  73. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  74. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  75. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  76. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  77. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  78. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  79. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  80. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  81. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  82. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  83. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  84. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  85. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  86. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  87. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  88. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  89. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  90. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  91. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  92. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  93. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  94. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  95. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  96. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  97. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  98. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  99. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  100. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  101. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  106. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  107. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  108. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  109. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  110. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  111. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  112. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  113. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  114. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  115. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  116. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  117. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  118. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  119. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  120. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  121. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  122. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  123. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  124. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  125. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  126. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  127. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  128. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  129. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  130. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  131. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  132. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  133. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  134. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  135. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  136. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  137. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  138. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  139. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  140. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  141. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  142. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  143. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  144. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  145. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  146. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  147. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
  148. John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  149. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  150. George Sand 1804 – 1876

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