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Carl Sandburg
Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Carl Sandburg

American writer

Born 6 January 1878 · died 22 July 1967, aged 89
Also known as Carl August Sandburg

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Sandburg?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Carl Sandburg, 1878 – 1967
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Carl Sandburg was born, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

When Carl Sandburg died, Barack Obama was 5, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 8, Vladimir Putin was 14 and Ronald Reagan was 56.

Born during Carl Sandburg’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 13 years before Carl Sandburg was born, Charles Dickens died about 8 years before Carl Sandburg was born, Hans Christian Andersen died about 3 years before Carl Sandburg was born and Shakira was born about 10 years after Carl Sandburg died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,682 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carl Sandburg. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  24. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  25. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  28. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  29. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  30. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  31. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  34. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  39. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  40. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  41. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  42. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  43. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  44. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  45. Bill Clinton born 1946
  46. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  47. Angela Merkel born 1954
  48. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  49. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  50. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  51. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  52. François Hollande born 1954
  53. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  54. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  55. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  56. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  57. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  58. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  59. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  60. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  61. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  62. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  65. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  68. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  69. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  70. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  71. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  72. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  73. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  74. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  75. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  76. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  77. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  78. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  79. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  80. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  81. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  82. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  83. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  84. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  85. Madonna born 1958
  86. Kamala Harris born 1964
  87. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  88. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  89. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  90. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  91. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  92. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  93. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  94. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  95. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  96. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  97. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  98. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  99. Xi Jinping born 1953
  100. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  101. Naruhito born 1960
  102. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  103. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  104. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  105. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  106. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  107. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  108. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  109. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  110. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  111. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  112. Bob Dylan born 1941
  113. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  114. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  115. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  116. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  117. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  118. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  119. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  120. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  121. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  122. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  123. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  124. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  125. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  126. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  127. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  128. Charles III born 1948
  129. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  130. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  131. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  132. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  133. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  134. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  135. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  136. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  137. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  138. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  139. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  140. Narendra Modi born 1950
  141. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  142. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  143. Rafael Correa born 1963
  144. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  145. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  146. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  147. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  148. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  149. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  150. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006