Who Was Alive
Billy the Kid
Ben Wittick (1845–1903), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billy the Kid

American gunfighter

Born 1859 · died 14 July 1881, aged 21
Also known as Kid Antrim, Henry Antrim, William Bonney

Who was alive at the same time as Billy the Kid?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Billy the Kid, 1859 – 1881
  17. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  18. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  19. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  20. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  21. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  22. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  23. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  24. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

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When Billy the Kid was born, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

When Billy the Kid died, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

Born during Billy the Kid’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, Rabindranath Tagore and Anton Chekhov.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 8 years after Billy the Kid died, Pablo Picasso was born months after Billy the Kid died, Charlie Chaplin was born about 8 years after Billy the Kid died and Franklin D. Roosevelt was born about a year after Billy the Kid died.

What happened in Billy the Kid’s lifetime

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

807 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Billy the Kid. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1870.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  33. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  34. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  38. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  39. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  40. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  41. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  42. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  43. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  44. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  45. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  46. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  47. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  48. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  51. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  55. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  56. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  57. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  58. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  61. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  64. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  65. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  66. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  67. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  68. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  69. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  70. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  74. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  75. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  76. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  77. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  78. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  79. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  80. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  81. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  82. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  83. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  84. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  85. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  88. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  89. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  90. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  91. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  92. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  93. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  94. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  95. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  96. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  97. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  98. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  99. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  100. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  101. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  102. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  103. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  104. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  105. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  106. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  107. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  108. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  109. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  110. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  111. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  112. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  113. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  114. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  115. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  116. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  117. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  118. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  119. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  120. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  121. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  122. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  123. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  124. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  125. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  126. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  127. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  128. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  129. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  130. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  131. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  132. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  133. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  134. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  135. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  136. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  137. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  138. Guglielmo Marconi 1874 – 1937
  139. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  140. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  141. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  142. Robert Frost 1874 – 1963
  143. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  144. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  145. Emma Goldman 1869 – 1940
  146. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  147. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  148. Ivan Bunin 1870 – 1953
  149. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  150. William James 1842 – 1910