Who Was Alive
Italo Svevo
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Italo Svevo

Italian writer

Born 19 December 1861 · died 13 September 1928, aged 66
Also known as Aron Ettore Schmitz, Ettore Schmitz, Aron Hector Schmitz

Who was alive at the same time as Italo Svevo?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  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. Italo Svevo, 1861 – 1928
  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. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Italo Svevo was born, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 33, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

When Italo Svevo died, Adolf Hitler was 39, Albert Einstein was 49, Ronald Reagan was 17, Nelson Mandela was 10 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 14 years after Italo Svevo died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about a year after Italo Svevo died, Pope Francis was born about 8 years after Italo Svevo died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 12 years before Italo Svevo was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,042 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Italo Svevo. 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. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  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. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  68. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  88. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  92. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  93. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  94. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  99. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  100. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  104. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  122. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  123. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  124. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  125. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  126. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  127. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  128. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  129. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  130. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  131. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  132. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  133. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  134. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  135. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  136. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  138. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  139. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  140. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  141. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  142. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  143. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  144. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  145. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  146. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  147. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  148. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  149. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  150. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940