Who Was Alive
Richard Owen
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Richard Owen

British biologist and paleontologist

Born 20 July 1804 · died 18 December 1892, aged 88
Also known as Sir Richard Owen, Sir R. Owen, Owen

Who was alive at the same time as Richard Owen?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Richard Owen, 1804 – 1892
  6. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  7. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  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 Richard Owen was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Richard Owen died, Adolf Hitler was 3, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 22, Mahatma Gandhi was 23 and Leo Tolstoy was 64.

Born during Richard Owen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Charles Darwin.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 5 years before Richard Owen was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 13 years before Richard Owen was born, Immanuel Kant died months before Richard Owen was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 12 years after Richard Owen died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,281 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Richard Owen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1848.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. 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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  55. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  65. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  66. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  67. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  83. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  84. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  88. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  89. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  96. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  97. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  98. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  99. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  100. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  101. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  102. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  103. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  110. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  116. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  117. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  118. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  119. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  120. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  121. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  122. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  123. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  124. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  125. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  128. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  129. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  130. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  131. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  134. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  135. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  136. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  137. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  138. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  139. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  140. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  141. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  142. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  143. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  144. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  145. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  146. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  147. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  148. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  149. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  150. Jack London 1876 – 1916