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Robert Southey
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Robert Southey

English poet

Born 12 August 1774 · died 21 March 1843, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Southey?

  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. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  11. Robert Southey, 1774 – 1843
  12. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  13. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  14. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  15. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  16. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  17. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  18. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  19. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Robert Southey was born, Napoleon was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 24, George Washington was 42, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 and Voltaire was 79.

When Robert Southey died, Karl Marx was 24, Abraham Lincoln was 34, Leo Tolstoy was 14, Charles Darwin was 34 and Victor Hugo was 41.

Born during Robert Southey’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 10 years after Robert Southey died, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about a year after Robert Southey died, Thomas Edison was born about 4 years after Robert Southey died and Sigmund Freud was born about 13 years after Robert Southey died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

641 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Southey. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1809.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  25. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  40. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  41. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  42. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  43. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  44. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  45. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  46. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  47. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  48. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  49. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  50. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  51. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  52. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  53. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  54. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  55. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  56. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  57. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  58. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  59. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  60. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  61. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  62. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  63. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  64. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  65. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  66. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  67. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  68. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  69. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  70. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  71. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  72. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  73. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  74. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  75. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  76. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  77. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  78. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  79. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  80. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  81. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  82. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  83. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  84. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  85. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  86. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  87. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  88. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  89. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  90. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  91. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  92. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  93. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  94. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  95. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  96. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  97. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  98. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  99. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  100. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  101. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  102. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  103. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  104. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  105. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  106. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  107. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  108. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  109. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  110. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  111. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  112. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  113. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  114. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  115. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  116. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  117. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  118. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  119. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  120. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  121. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  122. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  123. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  124. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  125. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  126. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  127. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  128. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  129. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  130. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  131. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  132. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  133. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  134. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  135. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  136. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  137. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  138. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  139. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  140. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  141. William James 1842 – 1910
  142. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  143. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  144. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  145. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  146. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  147. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  148. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  149. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  150. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928