Who was born first, James Clerk Maxwell or Victor Hugo?

Victor Hugo was born first, in 1802. James Clerk Maxwell was born in 1831.

James Clerk Maxwell & Victor Hugo

Did James Clerk Maxwell and Victor Hugo live at the same time?

Yes. James Clerk Maxwell and Victor Hugo lived at the same time for 48 years, from 1831 to 1879.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

James Clerk Maxwell · Victor Hugo · Born in 1831 · Born in 1802

James Clerk Maxwell

1831–1879

Science & Invention

Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

Victor Hugo

1802–1885

Literature

Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

18021885

James Clerk Maxwell

Victor Hugo

James Clerk Maxwell

Science & Invention

Born in Edinburgh

Died in Cambridge

Victor Hugo

Literature

Born in Besançon

Died in Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire

1838 First photograph of a person taken

1848 Revolutions of 1848 sweep Europe

1853 Crimean War begins

1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

1861 American Civil War begins

1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States

1869 Suez Canal opens

1871 Unification of Germany

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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79 years overlap

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74 years overlap

Victor Hugo & Charles Darwin

73 years overlap

Sources

James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell (Q9095) — Wikidata
Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
Victor Hugo (Q535) — Wikidata