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Ernest Renan
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Ernest Renan

French philosopher and writer

Born 28 February 1823 · died 2 October 1892, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Ernest Renan?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Ernest Renan, 1823 – 1892
  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 Ernest Renan was born, Karl Marx was 4, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 73 and Victor Hugo was 21.

When Ernest Renan died, Adolf Hitler was 3, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 22, Mahatma Gandhi was 23 and Leo Tolstoy was 64.

Born during Ernest Renan’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 2 years before Ernest Renan was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 12 years after Ernest Renan died, Mao Zedong was born about a year after Ernest Renan died and Walt Disney was born about 9 years after Ernest Renan died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,235 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ernest Renan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1858.

  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  59. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  60. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  61. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  75. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  80. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  81. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  85. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  86. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  87. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  91. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  92. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  94. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  95. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  96. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  101. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  102. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  103. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  104. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  105. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  106. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  107. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  108. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  109. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  110. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  111. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  112. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  113. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  114. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  115. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  116. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  117. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  118. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  119. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  120. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  121. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  122. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  123. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  124. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  125. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  126. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  127. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  128. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  129. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  130. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  131. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  132. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  133. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  134. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  135. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  136. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  137. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  138. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  139. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  140. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  141. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  142. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  143. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  144. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  145. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  146. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  147. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  148. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  149. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  150. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849