Who Was Alive

Were Sándor Petőfi and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Sándor Petőfi and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time, from 1828 to c. 1849.

Sándor Petőfi was 5 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Born 1 January 1823 · died c. 1849

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Sándor Petőfi
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Sándor Petőfi and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.