Who Was Alive

Sully Prudhomme

French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901

Born 16 March 1839 · died 7 September 1907, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Sully Prudhomme?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Sully Prudhomme
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Salvador Dalí
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When Sully Prudhomme was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 30, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 30 and Victor Hugo was 37.

When Sully Prudhomme died, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

Born during Sully Prudhomme’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 4 years after Sully Prudhomme died, Nelson Mandela was born 11 years after Sully Prudhomme died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 7 years before Sully Prudhomme was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 12 years before Sully Prudhomme was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
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  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
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