Who Was Alive
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

American astronomer

Born 4 July 1868 · died 12 December 1921, aged 53
Also known as Henrietta Leavitt

Who was alive at the same time as Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1868 – 1921
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When Henrietta Swan Leavitt died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

Born during Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born, Elizabeth II was born about 5 years after Henrietta Swan Leavitt died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 8 years after Henrietta Swan Leavitt died and Marilyn Monroe was born about 5 years after Henrietta Swan Leavitt died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,764 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Henrietta Swan Leavitt. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1895.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  88. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  89. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  94. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  98. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  99. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  122. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  123. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  124. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  125. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  126. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  127. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  131. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  132. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  133. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  134. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  135. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  136. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  137. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  138. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  143. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  146. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  147. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881