Who Was Alive
Robert Brown
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Robert Brown

British botanist

Born 21 December 1773 · died 10 June 1858, aged 84
Also known as R.Br.

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Brown?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Robert Brown, 1773 – 1858
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  15. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  16. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  17. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  19. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  20. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  22. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  23. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  24. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939

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When Robert Brown was born, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 41, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 17 and Voltaire was 79.

When Robert Brown died, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

Born during Robert Brown’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 12 years after Robert Brown died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 11 years after Robert Brown died, Marie Curie was born about 9 years after Robert Brown died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 3 years after Robert Brown died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

787 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Brown. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1816.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  23. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  31. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  43. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  46. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  47. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  48. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  49. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  50. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  51. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  52. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  53. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  55. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  56. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  57. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  58. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  59. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  60. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  61. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  62. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  63. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  64. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  65. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  66. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  67. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  68. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  69. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  70. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  71. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  72. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  73. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  74. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  75. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  76. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  77. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  78. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  79. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  80. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  81. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  82. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  83. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  84. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  85. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  86. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  87. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  88. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  89. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  90. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  91. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  92. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  93. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  94. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  95. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  96. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  97. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  98. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  99. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  100. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  101. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  102. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  103. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  104. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  105. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  106. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  107. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  108. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  109. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  110. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  111. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  112. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  113. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  114. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  115. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  116. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  117. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  118. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  119. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  120. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  121. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  122. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  123. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  124. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  125. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  126. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  127. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  128. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  129. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  130. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  131. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  132. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  133. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  134. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  135. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  136. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  137. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  138. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  139. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  140. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  141. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  142. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  143. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  144. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  145. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  146. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  147. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  148. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  149. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  150. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855