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Edward Sapir
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Edward Sapir

American linguist and anthropologist

Born 26 January 1884 · died 4 February 1939, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Edward Sapir?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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. Edward Sapir, 1884 – 1939
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Edward Sapir was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 14, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 5.

When Edward Sapir died, Adolf Hitler was 49, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

Born during Edward Sapir’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 7 years after Edward Sapir died, Vladimir Putin was born about 13 years after Edward Sapir died, Karl Marx died about a year before Edward Sapir was born and George W. Bush was born about 7 years after Edward Sapir died.

What happened in Edward Sapir’s lifetime

Where Edward Sapir’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,314 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Edward Sapir. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1912.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  67. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  88. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  92. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  127. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  128. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  129. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  130. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  137. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  143. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  144. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  145. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  146. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  147. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  148. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  149. Woody Allen born 1935
  150. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926