Who Was Alive

Ulysses S. Grant

President of the United States from 1869 to 1877

Born 27 April 1822 · died 23 July 1885, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Ulysses S. Grant?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Ulysses S. Grant
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
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When Ulysses S. Grant was born, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 20.

When Ulysses S. Grant died, Albert Einstein was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 15, Mahatma Gandhi was 15, Leo Tolstoy was 56 and Joseph Stalin was 6.

Born during Ulysses S. Grant’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born 4 years after Ulysses S. Grant died, Napoleon died about a year before Ulysses S. Grant was born, Charlie Chaplin was born 4 years after Ulysses S. Grant died and Mao Zedong was born 8 years after Ulysses S. Grant died.

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  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  51. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  52. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  56. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  57. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  59. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  60. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  63. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  64. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  65. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  66. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  67. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  68. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  69. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  70. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  71. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  72. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  73. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  74. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  75. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  76. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  78. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  79. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  82. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  83. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  84. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  85. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  86. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  89. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  90. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  91. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  92. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  93. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  94. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  95. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  96. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  97. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  98. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  99. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  100. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  101. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  102. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  103. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
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  107. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
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  110. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  111. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  112. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  113. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  114. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  115. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  116. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  117. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  118. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  119. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  120. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  121. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  122. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  123. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  124. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  125. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  126. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  127. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  128. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  129. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  130. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  131. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  132. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  133. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  134. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  135. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  136. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  137. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  138. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  139. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  140. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  141. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  142. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  143. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  144. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  145. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  146. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  147. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  148. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  149. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  150. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893

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