Who Was Alive
Franz Marc
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Franz Marc

German artist

Born 8 February 1880 · died 4 March 1916, aged 36
Also known as Franz Moriz Wilhelm Marc, Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc, Marc

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Marc?

  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. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  12. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Franz Marc, 1880 – 1916
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Franz Marc was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 10 and Leo Tolstoy was 51.

When Franz Marc died, Adolf Hitler was 26, Albert Einstein was 36, Ronald Reagan was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 45 and Mahatma Gandhi was 46.

Born during Franz Marc’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dalí, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franz Kafka and Mao Zedong.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 15 years before Franz Marc was born, Nelson Mandela was born about 2 years after Franz Marc died, Elizabeth II was born about 10 years after Franz Marc died and Charles Dickens died about 10 years before Franz Marc was born.

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Where Franz Marc’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,530 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Franz Marc. 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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  47. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  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. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  63. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  64. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  65. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  66. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  73. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  74. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  75. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  76. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  84. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  87. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  88. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  89. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  90. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  91. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  92. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  93. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  94. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  95. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  96. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  101. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  105. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  106. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  107. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  108. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  109. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  110. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  111. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  112. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  113. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  116. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  117. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  118. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  119. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  120. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  121. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  122. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  123. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  124. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  125. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  126. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  127. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  130. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  131. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  132. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  133. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  134. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  135. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  136. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  137. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  138. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  139. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  140. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  141. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  142. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  143. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  144. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  145. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  146. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  147. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  148. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  149. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  150. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963