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Emperor Taishō
Ministry of the Imperial Household, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Emperor Taishō

Emperor of Japan

Born 31 August 1879 · died 25 December 1926, aged 47
Also known as Yoshihito, Taisho, Emperor Taisho

Who was alive at the same time as Emperor Taishō?

  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. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  17. Emperor Taishō, 1879 – 1926
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Emperor Taishō was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 9 and Leo Tolstoy was 50.

When Emperor Taishō died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Emperor Taishō’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 14 years before Emperor Taishō was born, Charles Dickens died about 9 years before Emperor Taishō was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 3 years after Emperor Taishō died and Hans Christian Andersen died about 4 years before Emperor Taishō was born.

What happened in Emperor Taishō’s lifetime

Where Emperor Taishō’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,879 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emperor Taishō. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1903.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  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. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  86. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  93. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  105. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  106. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  107. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  108. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  118. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  119. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  120. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  121. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  122. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  123. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  124. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  125. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  126. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  127. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  131. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  132. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  136. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  137. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  138. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  139. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  140. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  141. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  142. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  143. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  144. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  145. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  146. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  147. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  148. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  149. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  150. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977