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Albert I of Belgium
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Albert I of Belgium

King of the Belgians

Born 8 April 1875 · died 17 February 1934, aged 58
Also known as Albert I, King Albert I, King Albert I of Belgium

Who was alive at the same time as Albert I of Belgium?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Albert I of Belgium, 1875 – 1934
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Albert I of Belgium was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Albert I of Belgium died, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

Born during Albert I of Belgium’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 12 years after Albert I of Belgium died, Abraham Lincoln died about 10 years before Albert I of Belgium was born, George W. Bush was born about 12 years after Albert I of Belgium died and Joe Biden was born about 8 years after Albert I of Belgium died.

What happened in Albert I of Belgium’s lifetime

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,189 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Albert I of Belgium. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1905.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  87. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  92. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  93. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  94. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  99. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  100. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  122. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  123. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  124. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  125. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  126. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  127. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  128. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  129. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  130. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  131. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  132. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  133. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  134. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  135. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  136. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  137. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  143. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  144. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  145. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  146. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  147. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  148. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  149. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  150. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926