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Ernest Shackleton
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Ernest Shackleton

British explorer

Born 15 February 1874 · died 5 January 1922, aged 47
Also known as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Who was alive at the same time as Ernest Shackleton?

  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. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  12. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  13. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  14. Ernest Shackleton, 1874 – 1922
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Ernest Shackleton was born, Karl Marx was 55, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 45 and Charles Darwin was 65.

When Ernest Shackleton died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

Born during Ernest Shackleton’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 9 years before Ernest Shackleton was born, Elizabeth II was born about 4 years after Ernest Shackleton died, Charles Dickens died about 4 years before Ernest Shackleton was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 7 years after Ernest Shackleton died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,732 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ernest Shackleton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1898.

  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  100. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  101. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  102. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  103. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  104. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  105. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  106. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  107. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  108. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  109. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  110. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  111. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  112. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  113. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  114. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  115. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  116. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  117. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  118. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  119. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  120. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  123. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  124. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  125. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  126. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  127. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  128. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  129. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  130. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  131. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  132. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  133. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  134. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  135. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  137. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  138. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  139. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  140. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  141. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  142. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  143. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  144. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  148. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  149. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  150. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886