Who Was Alive
Thomas De Quincey
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Thomas De Quincey

British novelist

Born 15 August 1785 · died 8 December 1859, aged 74
Also known as De Quincey, Thomas Penson De Quincey

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas De Quincey?

  1. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  9. Thomas De Quincey, 1785 – 1859
  10. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  11. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  12. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  13. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  14. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  15. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  16. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  17. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  19. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  20. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  22. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  23. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  24. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939

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When Thomas De Quincey was born, Napoleon was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 61.

When Thomas De Quincey died, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Thomas De Quincey’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 11 years after Thomas De Quincey died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 10 years after Thomas De Quincey died, Winston Churchill was born about 15 years after Thomas De Quincey died and Voltaire died about 7 years before Thomas De Quincey was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

793 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Thomas De Quincey. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1822.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  41. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  42. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  43. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  44. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  45. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  46. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  47. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  48. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  49. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  50. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  51. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  52. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  53. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  54. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  55. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  56. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  57. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  58. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  59. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  60. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  61. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  62. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  63. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  64. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  65. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  66. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  67. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  68. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  69. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  70. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  71. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  72. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  73. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  74. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  75. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  76. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  77. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  78. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  79. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  80. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  81. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  82. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  83. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  84. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  85. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  86. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  87. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  88. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  89. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  90. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  91. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  92. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  93. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  94. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  95. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  96. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  97. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  98. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  99. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  100. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  101. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  102. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  103. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  104. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  105. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  106. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  107. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  108. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  109. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  110. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  111. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  112. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  113. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  114. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  115. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  116. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  117. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  118. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  119. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  120. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  121. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  122. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  123. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  124. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  125. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  126. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  127. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  128. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  129. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  130. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  131. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  132. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  133. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  134. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  135. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  136. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  137. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  138. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  139. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  140. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  141. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  142. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  143. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  144. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  145. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  146. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  147. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  148. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  149. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  150. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855