Who Was Alive
Charles I of Austria
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Charles I of Austria

Emperor of Austria

Born 17 August 1887 · died 1 April 1922, aged 34
Also known as Karl I, Karl I and IV of Austria-Hungary, Karl I of Austria

Who was alive at the same time as Charles I of Austria?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  17. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  18. Charles I of Austria, 1887 – 1922
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Charles I of Austria was born, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 17, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

When Charles I of Austria died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 43, Ronald Reagan was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

Born during Charles I of Austria’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Mao Zedong and Charles de Gaulle.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 4 years before Charles I of Austria was born, Charles Darwin died about 5 years before Charles I of Austria was born, Victor Hugo died about 2 years before Charles I of Austria was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 6 years before Charles I of Austria was born.

What happened in Charles I of Austria’s lifetime

Where Charles I of Austria’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,669 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles I of Austria. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1905.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  33. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  34. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  38. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  45. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  61. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  66. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  67. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  68. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  74. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  78. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  79. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  80. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  81. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  82. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  86. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  87. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  88. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  89. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  90. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  91. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  94. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  95. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  96. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  97. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  98. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  102. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  103. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  104. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  105. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  106. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  107. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  108. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  109. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  110. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  111. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  112. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  113. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  114. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  115. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  119. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  120. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  121. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  122. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  123. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  124. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  125. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  126. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  127. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  130. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  131. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  132. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  133. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  134. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  135. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  142. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  143. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  144. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  145. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  149. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  150. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973