Who Was Alive
Helena Blavatsky
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Helena Blavatsky

Russian writer

Born 31 July 1831 (Julian calendar) · died 26 April 1891 (Julian calendar), aged 59
Also known as Helena von Hahn, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, H.P. Blavatsky

Who was alive at the same time as Helena Blavatsky?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Helena Blavatsky, 1831 – 1891
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Helena Blavatsky was born, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

When Helena Blavatsky died, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 10 years before Helena Blavatsky was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 4 years before Helena Blavatsky was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 13 years after Helena Blavatsky died and Mao Zedong was born about 2 years after Helena Blavatsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,160 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Helena Blavatsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1861.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  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. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  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. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  64. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  65. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  66. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  67. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  68. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  69. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  70. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  71. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  72. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  73. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  74. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  75. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  76. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  78. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  86. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  87. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  88. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  89. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  90. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  91. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  92. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  93. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  94. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  95. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  96. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  97. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  98. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  99. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  100. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  101. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  102. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  103. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  104. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  105. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  106. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  107. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  108. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  109. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  110. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  111. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  112. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  113. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  114. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  115. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  116. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  117. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  118. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  119. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  120. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  121. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  122. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  123. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  124. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  125. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  126. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  127. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  128. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  129. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  130. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  131. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  132. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  133. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  134. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  135. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  136. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  137. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  138. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  139. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  140. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  141. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  142. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  143. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  144. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  145. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  146. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  147. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  148. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  149. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  150. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923