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Friedrich Ebert
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Friedrich Ebert

German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany

Born 4 February 1871 · died 28 February 1925, aged 54

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Ebert?

  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. Friedrich Ebert, 1871 – 1925
  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 Friedrich Ebert was born, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 61.

When Friedrich Ebert died, Adolf Hitler was 35, Albert Einstein was 45, Ronald Reagan was 14, Nelson Mandela was 6 and Mahatma Gandhi was 55.

Born during Friedrich Ebert’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 6 years before Friedrich Ebert was born, Elizabeth II was born about a year after Friedrich Ebert died, Charles Dickens died about a year before Friedrich Ebert was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 4 years after Friedrich Ebert died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,849 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Friedrich Ebert. 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. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  89. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  90. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  94. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  98. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  99. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  122. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  123. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  124. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  125. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  126. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  127. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  128. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  129. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  130. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  131. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  132. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  133. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  134. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  135. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  136. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  137. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  138. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  139. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  140. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  141. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  142. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  143. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  144. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  145. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  146. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  147. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  150. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962