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J. P. Morgan
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J. P. Morgan

American financier and banker

Born 17 April 1837 · died 31 March 1913, aged 75
Also known as John Pierpont Morgan, J.P. Morgan, pierpont morgan

Who was alive at the same time as J. P. Morgan?

  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. J. P. Morgan, 1837 – 1913
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When J. P. Morgan was born, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

When J. P. Morgan died, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

Born during J. P. Morgan’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about 5 years after J. P. Morgan died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 5 years before J. P. Morgan was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 10 years before J. P. Morgan was born and Elizabeth II was born about 13 years after J. P. Morgan died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,685 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as J. P. Morgan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1875.

  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. 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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  88. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  89. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  93. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  94. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  95. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  96. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  103. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  104. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  105. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  106. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  107. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  108. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  109. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  110. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  111. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  114. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  115. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  116. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  117. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  118. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  119. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  120. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  121. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  122. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  123. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  124. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  125. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  126. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  128. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  129. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  130. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  131. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  132. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  133. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  134. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  135. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  136. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  137. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  138. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  139. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  140. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  141. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  142. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  145. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  146. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  147. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  148. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  149. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  150. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892