Who Was Alive

Stendhal

French writer

Born 23 January 1783 · died 23 March 1842, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Stendhal?

  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. Stendhal
  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. Otto von Bismarck
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. Louis Pasteur
  23. Leo Tolstoy
  24. Mark Twain
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When Stendhal was born, Napoleon was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 33, George Washington was 50, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 26 and Immanuel Kant was 58.

When Stendhal died, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 33, Leo Tolstoy was 13, Charles Darwin was 33 and Victor Hugo was 40.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 11 years after Stendhal died, Voltaire died 5 years before Stendhal was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 2 years after Stendhal died and Thomas Edison was born 5 years after Stendhal died.

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  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. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  36. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  37. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  38. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  39. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
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