Who Was Alive
Haakon VII
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Haakon VII

Monarch of Norway

Born 3 August 1872 · died 21 September 1957, aged 85
Also known as Haakon VII of Norway, Prince Carl of Denmark, Carl of Denmark

Who was alive at the same time as Haakon VII?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Haakon VII, 1872 – 1957
  12. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When Haakon VII was born, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 43 and Charles Darwin was 63.

When Haakon VII died, Donald Trump was 11, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 39 and George W. Bush was 11.

Born during Haakon VII’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 4 years after Haakon VII died, Michael Jackson was born about a year after Haakon VII died, Abraham Lincoln died about 7 years before Haakon VII was born and Charles Dickens died about 2 years before Haakon VII was born.

What happened in Haakon VII’s lifetime

Where Haakon VII’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,265 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Haakon VII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1915.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  28. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  31. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  33. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  34. Bill Gates born 1955
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  41. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  42. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  47. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  50. François Hollande born 1954
  51. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  52. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  81. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  82. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  83. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  84. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  85. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  86. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  87. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  90. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  91. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  92. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  93. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  94. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  95. Xi Jinping born 1953
  96. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  97. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  98. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  99. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  100. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  101. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  102. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  103. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  104. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  105. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  106. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  107. Bob Dylan born 1941
  108. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  109. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  110. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  111. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  114. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  115. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  116. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  117. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  118. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  119. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  120. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  121. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  122. Charles III born 1948
  123. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  124. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  127. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  128. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  133. Narendra Modi born 1950
  134. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  135. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  136. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  137. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  138. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  139. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  140. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  141. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  142. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  143. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  144. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  145. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  146. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  147. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  148. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  149. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  150. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935