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Abai Qunanbaiuly
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Abai Qunanbaiuly

Russian poet and philosopher

Born 29 July 1845 (Julian calendar) · died 23 June 1904 (Julian calendar), aged 58
Also known as Abay Kunanbaiuly, Abai Kunanbaev, Abai Kunanbaiuli

Who was alive at the same time as Abai Qunanbaiuly?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Abai Qunanbaiuly, 1845 – 1904
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Abai Qunanbaiuly was born, Karl Marx was 27, Abraham Lincoln was 36, Leo Tolstoy was 16, Charles Darwin was 36 and Victor Hugo was 43.

When Abai Qunanbaiuly died, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 25, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

Born during Abai Qunanbaiuly’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 7 years after Abai Qunanbaiuly died, Nelson Mandela was born about 14 years after Abai Qunanbaiuly died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 13 years before Abai Qunanbaiuly was born and John F. Kennedy was born about 13 years after Abai Qunanbaiuly died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,429 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abai Qunanbaiuly. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1875.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  46. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  50. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  53. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  54. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  55. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  56. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  57. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  58. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  59. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  60. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  63. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  64. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  65. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  66. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  67. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  68. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  74. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  75. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  81. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  85. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  91. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  92. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  93. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  94. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  95. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  96. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  97. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  98. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  99. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  100. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  101. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  102. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  103. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  104. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  105. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  106. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  107. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  108. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  109. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  110. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  111. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  112. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  113. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  114. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  115. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  116. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  117. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  118. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  119. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  120. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  121. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  122. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  123. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  124. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  125. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  126. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  127. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  128. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  129. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  130. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  131. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  132. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  133. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  134. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  135. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  136. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  137. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  138. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  139. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  140. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  141. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  142. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  143. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  144. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  145. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  146. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  147. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  148. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  149. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  150. Jack London 1876 – 1916