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Annie Besant
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Annie Besant

British socialist and theosophist

Born 1 October 1847 · died 20 September 1933, aged 85
Also known as Annie Wood Besant

Who was alive at the same time as Annie Besant?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Annie Besant, 1847 – 1933
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Annie Besant was born, Karl Marx was 29, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

When Annie Besant died, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 22, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 63.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 13 years after Annie Besant died, George W. Bush was born about 13 years after Annie Besant died, Joe Biden was born about 9 years after Annie Besant died and Alexander Pushkin died about 10 years before Annie Besant was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,331 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Annie Besant. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1890.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  61. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  62. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  74. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  96. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  98. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  99. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  100. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  101. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  106. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  107. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  108. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  109. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  110. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  111. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  112. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  113. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  114. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  115. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  116. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  117. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  118. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  119. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  120. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  121. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  122. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  123. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  124. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  126. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  127. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  128. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  131. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  132. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  133. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  134. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  137. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  138. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  139. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  140. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  141. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  142. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  143. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  144. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  145. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  146. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  147. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  148. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  149. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  150. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885