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Vincenzo Bellini
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Vincenzo Bellini

Italian composer

Born 3 November 1801 · died 23 September 1835, aged 33
Also known as Bellini

Who was alive at the same time as Vincenzo Bellini?

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When Vincenzo Bellini was born, Napoleon was 32, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 52, Immanuel Kant was 77, Alexander Pushkin was 2 and Thomas Jefferson was 58.

When Vincenzo Bellini died, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

Born during Vincenzo Bellini’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 2 years before Vincenzo Bellini was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 10 years before Vincenzo Bellini was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 9 years after Vincenzo Bellini died and Thomas Edison was born about 12 years after Vincenzo Bellini died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

499 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vincenzo Bellini. 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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  16. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  17. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  18. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  19. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  26. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  30. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  31. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  32. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  33. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  34. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  50. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  51. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  52. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  56. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  58. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  59. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  60. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  61. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  62. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  63. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  64. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  65. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  66. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  67. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  68. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  69. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  70. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  71. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  73. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  74. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  75. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  76. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  77. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  78. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  79. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  80. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  81. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  82. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  83. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  84. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  85. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  86. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  87. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  88. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  89. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  90. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  91. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  92. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  93. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  94. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  95. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  96. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  97. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  98. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  99. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  100. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  101. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  102. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  103. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  104. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  105. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  106. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  107. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  108. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  109. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  110. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  111. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  112. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  113. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  114. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  115. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  116. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  117. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  118. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  119. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  120. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  121. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  122. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  123. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  124. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  125. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  126. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  127. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  128. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  129. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  130. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  131. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  132. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  133. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  134. Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
  135. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  136. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  137. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  138. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  139. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  140. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  141. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  142. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  143. George III 1738 – 1820
  144. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  145. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  146. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  147. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  148. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  149. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  150. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895