Who Was Alive

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

Born 2 June 1840 · died 11 January 1928, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Hardy?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Thomas Hardy
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Thomas Hardy was born, Karl Marx was 22, Abraham Lincoln was 31, Leo Tolstoy was 11, Charles Darwin was 31 and Victor Hugo was 38.

When Thomas Hardy died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

Born during Thomas Hardy’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 8 years before Thomas Hardy was born, Joe Biden was born 14 years after Thomas Hardy died, Ludwig van Beethoven died 13 years before Thomas Hardy was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about a year after Thomas Hardy died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
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  46. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  57. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
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  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
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  70. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
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  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
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  115. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
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  119. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  122. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  123. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  124. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  125. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  126. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  127. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  128. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  129. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
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