Who was alive at the same time as James A. Garfield?

President of the United States in 1881

James A. Garfield lived 1831–1881. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1831–1881
Lifespan: about 50 years
Born in, as it was then: Cleveland, OH
On today’s map: United States

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When James A. Garfield was born, Karl Marx was already about 13 years old.
James A. Garfield was about 48 when Albert Einstein was born.
James A. Garfield and Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter) shared about 28 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in the Netherlands.
Sigmund Freud outlived James A. Garfield by about 58 years.

Famous contemporaries of James A. Garfield

Rulers and commanders

Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 3 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 11 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 50 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 7 yrs shared
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 · 34 yrs shared
Nicholas II 1868–1918 · 13 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 2 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 50 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 25 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 50 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 37 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 24 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 28 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 1 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 50 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 50 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 27 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 41 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 12 yrs shared

Born within five years of James A. Garfield

Leo Tolstoy (1828) · Johannes Brahms (1833) · Alfred Nobel (1833) · Mark Twain (1835) · Henrik Ibsen (1828) · Édouard Manet (1832) · Dmitri Mendeleev (1833) · Edgar Degas (1834)

About James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

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