Who Was Alive

Harriet Tubman

African-American abolitionist

Born 1817–1824 · died 10 March 1913

Who was alive at the same time as Harriet Tubman?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Harriet Tubman
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Leo Tolstoy
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  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. Ronald Reagan
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Harriet Tubman died, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

Born during Harriet Tubman’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born 5 years after Harriet Tubman died, Elizabeth II was born 13 years after Harriet Tubman died, Immanuel Kant died 13 years before Harriet Tubman was born and John F. Kennedy was born 4 years after Harriet Tubman died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  52. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
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  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  79. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  84. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  85. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  89. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  90. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  91. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
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  96. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
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  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
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  100. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  101. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  102. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  105. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  106. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
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  111. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  112. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  115. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  118. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  119. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  120. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  126. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
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  128. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  129. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  130. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
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  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
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  137. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  138. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  139. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
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  143. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  144. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  145. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
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