Who Was Alive

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher

Born 15 October 1844 · died 25 August 1900, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Nietzsche?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Rabindranath Tagore
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Friedrich Nietzsche was born, Karl Marx was 26, Abraham Lincoln was 35, Leo Tolstoy was 16, Charles Darwin was 35 and Victor Hugo was 42.

When Friedrich Nietzsche died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

Born during Friedrich Nietzsche’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 11 years after Friedrich Nietzsche died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 12 years before Friedrich Nietzsche was born, Salvador Dalí was born 4 years after Friedrich Nietzsche died and Alexander Pushkin died 7 years before Friedrich Nietzsche was born.

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  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. 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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  50. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  65. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  66. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  67. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  68. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  69. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  70. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  71. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  75. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  76. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  77. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  78. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  86. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  87. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  88. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  89. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  90. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  91. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  92. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  93. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  94. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  95. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  98. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  99. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  100. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  101. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  102. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  103. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  104. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  105. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  106. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  107. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  108. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  109. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  110. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  111. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  112. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  113. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  114. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  115. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  116. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  117. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  118. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  119. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  120. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  121. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  122. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  123. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  124. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  125. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  126. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  127. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  128. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  129. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  130. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  131. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  132. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  133. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  134. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  135. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  136. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  137. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  138. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  139. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  140. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  141. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  142. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  143. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  144. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  145. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  146. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  147. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  148. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  149. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  150. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963

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