Who Was Alive

Taras Shevchenko

Ukrainian poet and artist

Born 25 February 1814 (Julian calendar) · died 26 February 1861 (Julian calendar), aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Taras Shevchenko?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Taras Shevchenko
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Leo Tolstoy
  18. Mark Twain
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Thomas Edison
  21. Vincent van Gogh
  22. Oscar Wilde
  23. Sigmund Freud
  24. Anton Chekhov
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 Taras Shevchenko was born, Abraham Lincoln was 5, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 12.

When Taras Shevchenko died, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

Born during Taras Shevchenko’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 9 years after Taras Shevchenko died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 8 years after Taras Shevchenko died, George Washington died 15 years before Taras Shevchenko was born and Winston Churchill was born 13 years after Taras Shevchenko died.

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  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  35. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  38. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  40. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  41. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  42. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  47. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  55. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  62. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  65. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  66. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  67. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  68. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  69. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  70. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  71. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  74. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  75. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  76. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  77. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  78. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  81. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  82. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  83. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  84. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  85. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  86. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  87. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  88. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  89. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  90. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  95. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  96. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  97. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  98. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  99. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  100. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  101. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  102. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  103. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  104. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  105. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  106. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  107. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  108. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  109. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  110. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  111. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  112. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  113. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  114. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  115. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  116. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  117. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  118. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  119. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  120. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  121. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  122. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  123. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  124. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  125. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  126. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  127. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  128. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  129. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  130. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  131. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  132. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  133. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  134. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  135. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  136. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  137. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  138. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  139. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  140. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  141. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  142. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  143. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  144. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  145. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  146. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  147. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  148. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  149. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  150. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914

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