Who Was Alive
Vasily Zhukovsky
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Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet

Born 29 January 1783 (Julian calendar) · died 12 April 1852 (Julian calendar), aged 69
Also known as Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky, Vassili Zhukovsky

Who was alive at the same time as Vasily Zhukovsky?

  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. Vasily Zhukovsky, 1783 – 1852
  10. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  18. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  19. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Vasily Zhukovsky was born, Napoleon was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 33, George Washington was 50, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 27 and Immanuel Kant was 58.

When Vasily Zhukovsky died, Karl Marx was 33, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 23, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

Born during Vasily Zhukovsky’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about a year after Vasily Zhukovsky died, Voltaire died about 5 years before Vasily Zhukovsky was born, Sigmund Freud was born about 4 years after Vasily Zhukovsky died and Rabindranath Tagore was born about 9 years after Vasily Zhukovsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

699 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vasily Zhukovsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1818.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  40. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  41. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  42. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  43. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  44. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  45. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  46. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  47. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  49. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  50. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  51. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  52. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  53. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  54. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  55. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  56. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  57. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  58. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  59. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  60. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  61. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  62. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  63. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  64. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  65. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  66. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  67. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  68. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  69. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  70. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  72. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  73. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  74. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  75. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  76. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  77. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  78. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  79. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  80. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  81. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  82. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  83. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  84. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  85. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  86. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  87. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  88. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  89. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  90. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  91. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  92. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  93. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  94. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  95. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  96. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  97. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  98. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  99. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  100. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  101. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  102. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  103. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  104. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  105. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  106. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  107. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  108. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  109. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  110. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  111. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  112. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  113. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  114. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  115. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  116. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  117. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  118. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  119. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  120. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  121. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  122. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  123. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  124. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  125. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  126. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  127. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  128. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  129. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  130. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  131. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  132. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  133. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  134. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  135. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  136. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  137. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  138. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  139. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  140. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  141. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  142. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  143. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  144. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  145. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  146. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  147. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  148. William James 1842 – 1910
  149. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  150. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834