Who Was Alive

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

American inventor and painter

Born 27 April 1791 · died 2 April 1872, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel Finley Breese Morse?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Samuel Finley Breese Morse
  8. Alexander Pushkin
  9. Victor Hugo
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Karl Marx
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Leo Tolstoy
  16. Mark Twain
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Thomas Edison
  19. Vincent van Gogh
  20. Sigmund Freud
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born, Napoleon was 21, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 41, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When Samuel Finley Breese Morse died, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 43 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during Samuel Finley Breese Morse’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 7 years after Samuel Finley Breese Morse died, Joseph Stalin was born 6 years after Samuel Finley Breese Morse died, Pablo Picasso was born 9 years after Samuel Finley Breese Morse died and Winston Churchill was born 2 years after Samuel Finley Breese Morse 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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  27. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
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