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Emily Greene Balch
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Emily Greene Balch

American economist and writer

Born 8 January 1867 · died 9 January 1961, aged 94
Also known as Emily G. Balch, Emily Balch

Who was alive at the same time as Emily Greene Balch?

  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. Emily Greene Balch, 1867 – 1961
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  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. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Joe Biden, born 1942
  21. Donald Trump, born 1946
  22. George W. Bush, born 1946
  23. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  24. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009

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When Emily Greene Balch was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Emily Greene Balch died, Donald Trump was 14, Michael Jackson was 2, Vladimir Putin was 8, Ronald Reagan was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 42.

Born during Emily Greene Balch’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born months after Emily Greene Balch died, Abraham Lincoln died about 2 years before Emily Greene Balch was born, Jimmy Wales was born about 5 years after Emily Greene Balch died and Elon Musk was born about 10 years after Emily Greene Balch died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,431 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emily Greene Balch. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1914.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  14. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  15. Joe Biden born 1942
  16. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  17. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  18. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  19. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  25. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  26. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  27. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  28. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  36. Bill Gates born 1955
  37. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  38. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  39. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  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. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  87. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  88. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  89. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  90. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  91. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  92. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  93. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  94. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  95. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  96. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  97. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  98. Xi Jinping born 1953
  99. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  100. Naruhito born 1960
  101. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  102. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  103. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  104. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  105. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  106. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  107. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  108. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  109. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  110. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  111. Bob Dylan born 1941
  112. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  113. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  114. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  115. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  116. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  117. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  118. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  119. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  120. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  121. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  122. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  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. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  140. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  141. Narendra Modi born 1950
  142. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  143. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  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