Who Was Alive
Vissarion Belinsky
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Vissarion Belinsky

Russian literary critic

Born 30 May 1811 (Julian calendar) · died 26 May 1848 (Julian calendar), aged 36
Also known as Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, Vissárion Grigoryevich Belinsky

Who was alive at the same time as Vissarion Belinsky?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  11. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Vissarion Belinsky, 1811 – 1848
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  17. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  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 Vissarion Belinsky was born, Abraham Lincoln was 2, Napoleon was 41, Charles Darwin was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 61 and Victor Hugo was 9.

When Vissarion Belinsky died, Karl Marx was 30, Abraham Lincoln was 39, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 39 and Victor Hugo was 46.

Born during Vissarion Belinsky’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Otto von Bismarck.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 12 years before Vissarion Belinsky was born, Vincent van Gogh was born about 5 years after Vissarion Belinsky died, Immanuel Kant died about 7 years before Vissarion Belinsky was born and Sigmund Freud was born about 8 years after Vissarion Belinsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

598 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vissarion Belinsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1830.

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  28. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  29. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  30. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  34. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  35. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  36. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  37. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  41. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  42. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  52. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  53. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  54. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  55. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  56. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  57. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  58. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  59. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  61. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  62. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  63. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  64. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  65. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  66. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  67. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  68. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  69. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  70. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  71. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  72. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  73. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  74. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  75. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  76. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  77. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  78. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  79. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  80. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  81. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  82. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  83. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  84. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  85. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  86. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  87. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  88. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  89. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  90. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  91. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  92. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  93. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  94. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  95. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  96. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  97. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  98. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  99. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  100. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  101. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  102. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  103. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  104. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  105. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  106. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  107. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  108. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  109. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  110. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  111. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  112. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  113. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  114. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  115. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  116. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  117. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  118. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  119. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  120. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  121. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  122. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  123. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  124. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  125. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  126. William James 1842 – 1910
  127. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  128. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  129. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  130. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  131. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  132. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  133. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  134. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  135. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  136. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  137. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  138. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  139. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  140. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  141. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  142. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  143. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  144. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  145. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  146. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  147. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  148. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
  149. Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918
  150. William Herschel 1738 – 1822