Who Was Alive

Robert E. Lee

Confederate States general

Born 19 January 1807 · died 12 October 1870, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Robert E. Lee?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  7. Hans Christian Andersen
  8. Robert E. Lee
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Charles Dickens
  12. Karl Marx
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Leo Tolstoy
  15. Mark Twain
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Thomas Edison
  18. Vincent van Gogh
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Anton Chekhov
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
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When Robert E. Lee was born, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 57, Victor Hugo was 4, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

When Robert E. Lee died, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 61.

Born during Robert E. Lee’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 9 years after Robert E. Lee died, Joseph Stalin was born 8 years after Robert E. Lee died, George Washington died 8 years before Robert E. Lee was born and Pablo Picasso was born 11 years after Robert E. Lee died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
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  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
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