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Christian IX
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Christian IX

Monarch of Denmark

Born 8 April 1818 · died 29 January 1906, aged 87
Also known as Christian IX of Denmark, Kristian IX.a Danimarkakoa, King Christian IX of Denmark

Who was alive at the same time as Christian IX?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Christian IX, 1818 – 1906
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Christian IX was born, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 48, Charles Darwin was 9, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68 and Victor Hugo was 16.

When Christian IX died, Adolf Hitler was 16, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 35, Mahatma Gandhi was 36 and Leo Tolstoy was 77.

Born during Christian IX’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 5 years after Christian IX died, Nelson Mandela was born about 12 years after Christian IX died, Immanuel Kant died about 14 years before Christian IX was born and John F. Kennedy was born about 11 years after Christian IX died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,588 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Christian IX. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1862.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. 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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  53. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  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. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  80. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  81. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  85. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  86. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  87. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  91. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  92. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  93. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  96. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  97. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  98. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  102. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  103. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  104. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  105. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  113. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  114. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  115. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  116. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  117. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  118. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  119. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  123. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  124. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  125. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  126. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  127. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  128. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  129. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  130. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  131. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  132. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  133. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  134. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  135. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  136. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  137. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  138. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  139. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  140. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  141. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  142. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  143. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  144. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  145. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  146. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  147. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  148. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  149. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  150. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925