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Robert Owen
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Robert Owen

Social reformer

Born 14 May 1771 · died 17 November 1858, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Owen?

  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 Owen, 1771 – 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 Owen was born, Napoleon was 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 21, George Washington was 39, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 15 and Voltaire was 76.

When Robert Owen died, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

Born during Robert Owen’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 Owen died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 11 years after Robert Owen died, Marie Curie was born about 9 years after Robert Owen died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 3 years after Robert Owen died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

797 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Owen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1815.

  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. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  44. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  45. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  46. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  47. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  48. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  49. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  50. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  51. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  52. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  53. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  54. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  56. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  57. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  58. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  59. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  60. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  61. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  62. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  63. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  64. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  65. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  66. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  67. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  68. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  69. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  70. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  71. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  72. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  73. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  74. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  75. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  76. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  77. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  78. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  79. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  80. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  81. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  82. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  83. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  84. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  85. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  86. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  87. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  88. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  89. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  90. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  91. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  92. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  93. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  94. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  95. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  96. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  97. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  98. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  99. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  100. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  101. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  102. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  103. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  104. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  105. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  106. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  107. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  108. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  109. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  110. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  111. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  112. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  113. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  114. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  115. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  116. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  117. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  118. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  119. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  120. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  121. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  122. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  123. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  124. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  125. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  126. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  127. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  128. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  129. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  130. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  131. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  132. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  133. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  134. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  135. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  136. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  137. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  138. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  139. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  140. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  141. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  142. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  143. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  144. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  145. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  146. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  147. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  148. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  149. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  150. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794