Who Was Alive

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher

Born 4 December 1795 · died 5 February 1881, aged 85

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Carlyle?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Napoleon
  6. Thomas Carlyle
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Charles Darwin
  10. Charles Dickens
  11. Karl Marx
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Leo Tolstoy
  14. Mark Twain
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. Thomas Edison
  17. Vincent van Gogh
  18. Sigmund Freud
  19. Marie Curie
  20. Mahatma Gandhi
  21. Vladimir Lenin
  22. Winston Churchill
  23. Joseph Stalin
  24. Albert Einstein
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When Thomas Carlyle was born, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 63, Immanuel Kant was 71 and Thomas Jefferson was 52.

When Thomas Carlyle died, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

Born during Thomas Carlyle’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 8 years after Thomas Carlyle died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 4 years before Thomas Carlyle was born, Pablo Picasso was born months after Thomas Carlyle died and Charlie Chaplin was born 8 years after Thomas Carlyle died.

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  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
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  31. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
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