Who Was Alive
Ivan Vazov
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Ivan Vazov

Bulgarian writer

Born 9 July 1850 · died 22 September 1921, aged 71
Also known as Ivan Minchov Vazov

Who was alive at the same time as Ivan Vazov?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Ivan Vazov, 1850 – 1921
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Ivan Vazov was born, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

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

Born during Ivan Vazov’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born about 5 years after Ivan Vazov died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 8 years after Ivan Vazov died, Alexander Pushkin died about 13 years before Ivan Vazov was born and Marilyn Monroe was born about 5 years after Ivan Vazov died.

What happened in Ivan Vazov’s lifetime

Where Ivan Vazov’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,852 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ivan Vazov. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1886.

  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  80. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  81. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  86. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  90. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  96. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  100. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  101. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  102. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  103. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  104. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  105. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  113. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  118. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  119. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  120. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  121. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  122. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  123. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  124. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  125. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  126. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  127. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  128. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  129. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  130. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  131. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  132. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  133. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  134. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  135. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  136. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  137. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  138. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  139. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  140. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  141. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  142. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  143. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  144. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  145. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  146. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  147. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  148. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  149. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  150. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910