Who was alive at the same time as Chester A. Arthur?

President of the United States from 1881 to 1885

Chester A. Arthur lived 1829–1886. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1829–1886
Lifespan: about 57 years
Born in, as it was then: Fairfield, VT
On today’s map: United States

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When Chester A. Arthur was born, Karl Marx was already about 11 years old.
Chester A. Arthur was about 50 when Albert Einstein was born.
Chester A. Arthur and Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter) shared about 33 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in the Netherlands.
Sigmund Freud outlived Chester A. Arthur by about 53 years.

Famous contemporaries of Chester A. Arthur

Rulers and commanders

Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 8 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 16 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 3 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 57 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 12 yrs shared
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 · 36 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 7 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 54 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 30 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 53 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 42 yrs shared
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 · 26 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 33 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 5 yrs shared
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 · 3 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 56 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 54 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 32 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 17 yrs shared

Born within five years of Chester A. Arthur

Leo Tolstoy (1828) · Johannes Brahms (1833) · Alfred Nobel (1833) · Henrik Ibsen (1828) · Édouard Manet (1832) · Dmitri Mendeleev (1833) · Edgar Degas (1834) · James Clerk Maxwell (1831)

About Chester A. Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield in 1881, assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination. Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy, the end of the so-called "spoils system", and the implementation of harsher restrictions for migrants entering from abroad.

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