Who Was Alive
Stamford Raffles
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Stamford Raffles

British botanist

Born 5–6 July 1781 · died 5 July 1826, aged 44 or 45
Also known as Thomas Stamford Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Raffles

Who was alive at the same time as Stamford Raffles?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  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. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  11. Stamford Raffles, 1781 – 1826
  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. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895

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When Stamford Raffles was born, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 57.

When Stamford Raffles died, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 17, Charles Darwin was 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 24.

Born during Stamford Raffles’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 2 years after Stamford Raffles died, Voltaire died about 3 years before Stamford Raffles was born, Mark Twain was born about 9 years after Stamford Raffles died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died about 3 years before Stamford Raffles was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

497 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Stamford Raffles. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1804.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  29. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  30. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  31. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  32. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  33. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  34. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  35. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  36. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  37. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  38. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  48. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  49. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  50. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  51. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  52. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  53. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  54. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  55. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  56. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  57. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  61. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  62. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  63. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  64. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  65. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  66. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  67. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  68. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  69. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  70. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  71. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  72. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  73. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  74. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  75. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  76. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  77. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  78. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  79. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  80. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  81. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  82. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  83. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  84. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  85. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  86. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  87. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  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. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  98. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  99. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  100. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  101. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  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 1754 – 1793
  108. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  109. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  110. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  111. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  112. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  113. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  114. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  115. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  116. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  117. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  118. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  119. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  120. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  121. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  122. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  123. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  124. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  125. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  126. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  127. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  128. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  129. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  130. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  131. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  132. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  133. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  134. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  135. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  136. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  137. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  138. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  139. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  140. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  141. George III 1738 – 1820
  142. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  143. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  144. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  145. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  146. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  147. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  148. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  149. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  150. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814