Who Was Alive

Grover Cleveland

22nd & 24th President of the United States

Born 18 March 1837 · died 24 June 1908, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Grover Cleveland?

  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. Grover Cleveland
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  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. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Salvador Dalí
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When Grover Cleveland was born, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

When Grover Cleveland died, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

Born during Grover Cleveland’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 3 years after Grover Cleveland died, Nelson Mandela was born 10 years after Grover Cleveland died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 5 years before Grover Cleveland was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 10 years before Grover Cleveland 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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
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  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
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  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  84. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  87. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
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  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
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  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
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  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  128. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  129. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  130. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  131. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
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  133. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
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  135. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  136. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
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  139. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  142. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  143. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  144. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
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