Who Was Alive

Washington Irving

American writer, historian and diplomat

Born 3 April 1783 · died 28 November 1859, aged 76

Who was alive at the same time as Washington Irving?

  1. Adam Smith
  2. Immanuel Kant
  3. George Washington
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven
  8. Napoleon
  9. Washington Irving
  10. Alexander Pushkin
  11. Victor Hugo
  12. Hans Christian Andersen
  13. Edgar Allan Poe
  14. Abraham Lincoln
  15. Charles Darwin
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Sigmund Freud
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When Washington Irving was born, Napoleon was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 33, George Washington was 51, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 27 and Immanuel Kant was 58.

When Washington Irving died, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Washington Irving’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 11 years after Washington Irving died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 10 years after Washington Irving died, Voltaire died 5 years before Washington Irving was born and Marie Curie was born 8 years after Washington Irving died.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  41. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  42. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  43. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  44. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  45. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  46. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  47. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  49. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  50. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  51. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  53. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  54. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  55. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  56. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  57. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  58. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  59. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  60. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  61. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  62. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  63. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  64. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  65. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  66. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  67. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  68. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  69. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  70. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  71. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  72. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  73. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  74. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  75. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  76. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  77. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  78. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  79. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  81. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  82. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  83. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  84. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  85. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  86. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  87. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  88. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  89. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  90. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  91. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  92. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  93. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  94. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  95. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  96. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  97. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  98. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  99. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  100. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  101. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  102. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  103. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  104. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  105. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  106. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  107. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  108. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  109. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  110. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  111. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  112. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  113. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  114. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  115. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  116. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  117. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  118. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  119. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  120. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  121. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  122. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  123. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  124. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  125. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  126. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  127. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  128. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  129. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  130. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  131. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  132. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  133. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  134. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  135. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  136. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  137. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  138. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  139. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  140. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  141. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  142. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  143. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  144. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  145. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  146. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  147. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  148. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  149. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  150. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941

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