Who Was Alive

Shaka Zulu

Leader of the Zulu Kingdom

Born 1785–1789 · died 22–24 September 1828

Who was alive at the same time as Shaka Zulu?

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Shaka Zulu
  11. Lord Byron
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Richard Wagner
  20. Otto von Bismarck
  21. Karl Marx
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Louis Pasteur
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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 Shaka Zulu died, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 19 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79.

Born during Shaka Zulu’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died 7 years before Shaka Zulu was born, Mark Twain was born 7 years after Shaka Zulu died, Jean-Jacques Rousseau died 7 years before Shaka Zulu was born and Carl Linnaeus died 7 years before Shaka Zulu was born.

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All 220 contemporaries we track

  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  32. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  47. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  48. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  49. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  50. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  51. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  52. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  57. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  58. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  59. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  60. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  61. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  62. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  63. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  64. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  65. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  66. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  67. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  68. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  69. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  70. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  71. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  72. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  73. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  74. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  75. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  76. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  77. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  78. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  79. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  80. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  81. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  82. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  83. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  84. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  85. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  86. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  87. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  88. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  89. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  90. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  91. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  92. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  93. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  94. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  95. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  96. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  97. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  98. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  99. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  100. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  101. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  102. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  103. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  104. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  105. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  106. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  107. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  108. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  109. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  110. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  111. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  112. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  113. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  114. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  115. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  116. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  117. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  118. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  119. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  120. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  121. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  122. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  123. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  124. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  125. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  126. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  127. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  128. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  129. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  130. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  131. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  132. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  133. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  134. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  135. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  136. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  137. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  138. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  139. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  140. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  141. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  142. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  143. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  144. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  145. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  146. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  147. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  148. Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910
  149. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  150. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814

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