Who Was Alive

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist

Born 25 November 1835 · died 11 August 1919, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Andrew Carnegie?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Andrew Carnegie
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Vladimir Lenin
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Andrew Carnegie was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Andrew Carnegie died, Adolf Hitler was 30, Albert Einstein was 40, Ronald Reagan was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

Born during Andrew Carnegie’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died 14 years before Andrew Carnegie was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 3 years before Andrew Carnegie was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 8 years before Andrew Carnegie was born and Elizabeth II was born 7 years after Andrew Carnegie died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  52. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  86. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  87. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  88. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  89. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  92. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  93. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  97. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  98. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  99. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  100. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  101. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  127. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  128. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  129. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  130. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  131. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  132. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  133. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  134. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  135. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  136. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  137. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
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  140. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  141. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  142. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  143. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  144. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  145. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  146. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  147. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  148. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  149. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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