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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French painter

Born 30 November 1825 · died 19 August 1905, aged 79
Also known as William Bouguereau, Adolphe William Bouguereau, William Adolphe Bouguereau

Who was alive at the same time as William-Adolphe Bouguereau?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1825 – 1905
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born, Karl Marx was 7, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 23.

When William-Adolphe Bouguereau died, Adolf Hitler was 16, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 35, Mahatma Gandhi was 35 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

Born during William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 6 years after William-Adolphe Bouguereau died, Nelson Mandela was born about 13 years after William-Adolphe Bouguereau died, Napoleon died about 4 years before William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born and John F. Kennedy was born about 12 years after William-Adolphe Bouguereau died.

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Where William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,552 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1865.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  89. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  90. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  91. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  94. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  95. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  96. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  111. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  112. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  113. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  114. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  118. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  119. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  120. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  121. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  122. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  123. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  124. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  125. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  126. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  127. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  130. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  131. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  132. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  143. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  144. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  150. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904