Who was born first, Karl Marx or Louis Pasteur?

Karl Marx was born first, in 1818. Louis Pasteur was born in 1822.

Karl Marx & Louis Pasteur

Did Karl Marx and Louis Pasteur live at the same time?

Yes. Karl Marx and Louis Pasteur lived at the same time for 61 years, from 1822 to 1883.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Karl Marx · Louis Pasteur · Born in 1818 · Born in 1822

Karl Marx

1818–1883

Philosophy & Thought

Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto

Louis Pasteur

1822–1895

Science & Invention

Germ theory, pasteurization

18181895

Karl Marx

Louis Pasteur

Karl Marx

Philosophy & Thought

Born in Trier

Died in London

Louis Pasteur

Science & Invention

Born in Dole

Died in Saint-Cloud

World Events During Their Overlap

1825 First public railway opens in England

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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Louis Pasteur & Giuseppe Verdi

73 years overlap

Louis Pasteur & Otto von Bismarck

73 years overlap

Louis Pasteur & Frederick Douglass

73 years overlap

Sources

Karl Marx — Wikipedia
Karl Marx (Q9061) — Wikidata
Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
Louis Pasteur (Q529) — Wikidata