Who was alive at the same time as Queen Victoria?

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

Queen Victoria lived 1819–1901. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1819–1901
Lifespan: about 82 years
Born in, as it was then: London
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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When Queen Victoria was born, Ludwig van Beethoven was already about 49 years old.
Queen Victoria was about 60 when Albert Einstein was born.
Queen Victoria and Karl Marx (German-born philosopher) shared about 64 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Germany.
Adolf Hitler outlived Queen Victoria by about 44 years.

Famous contemporaries of Queen Victoria

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 12 yrs shared
Napoleon 1769–1821 · 2 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 23 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 31 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 18 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 8 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 22 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 64 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 45 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 63 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 56 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 36 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770–1827 · 8 yrs shared
Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 37 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 20 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 13 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 66 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 64 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 32 yrs shared

Born within five years of Queen Victoria

Karl Marx (1818) · Otto von Bismarck (1815) · Louis Pasteur (1822) · Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821) · Friedrich Engels (1820) · Charles Baudelaire (1821) · Florence Nightingale (1820) · Bedřich Smetana (1824)

About Queen Victoria

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.

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