Who Was Alive

Walter Scott

Scottish novelist, poet and playwright

Born 15 August 1771 · died 21 September 1832, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Walter Scott?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  4. Adam Smith
  5. Immanuel Kant
  6. George Washington
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven
  11. Napoleon
  12. Walter Scott
  13. Lord Byron
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Victor Hugo
  16. Hans Christian Andersen
  17. Edgar Allan Poe
  18. Abraham Lincoln
  19. Charles Darwin
  20. Charles Dickens
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Walter Scott was born, Napoleon was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 21, George Washington was 39, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 15 and Voltaire was 76.

When Walter Scott died, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 4, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

Born during Walter Scott’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born 12 years after Walter Scott died, Thomas Edison was born 15 years after Walter Scott died, Mark Twain was born 3 years after Walter Scott died and Sarah Bernhardt was born 12 years after Walter Scott died.

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All 244 contemporaries we track

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  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. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  42. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  43. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  49. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  50. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  51. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  52. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  57. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  58. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  59. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  60. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  61. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  62. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  63. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  64. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  65. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  66. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  67. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  68. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  69. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  70. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  71. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  72. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  73. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  74. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  75. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  76. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  77. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  78. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  79. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  80. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  81. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  82. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  83. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  84. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  85. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  86. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  87. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  88. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  89. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  90. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  91. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  92. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  93. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  94. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  95. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  96. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  97. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  98. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  99. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  100. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  101. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  102. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  103. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  104. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  105. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  106. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  107. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  108. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  109. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  110. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  111. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  112. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  113. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  114. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  115. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  116. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  117. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  118. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  119. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  120. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  121. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  122. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  123. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  124. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  125. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  126. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  127. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  128. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  129. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  130. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  131. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  132. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  133. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  134. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  135. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  136. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  137. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  138. Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  139. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  140. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  141. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  142. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  143. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  144. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  145. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  146. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  147. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  148. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  149. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  150. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829

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