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James McNeill Whistler
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James McNeill Whistler

American painter

Born 10–11 July 1834 · died 17 July 1903, aged 69
Also known as James Abbott Whistler, James Abbot M'Neill Whistler, James A. McNeill Whistler

Who was alive at the same time as James McNeill Whistler?

  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. James McNeill Whistler, 1834 – 1903
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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 James McNeill Whistler was born, Karl Marx was 16, Abraham Lincoln was 25, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 25 and Victor Hugo was 32.

When James McNeill Whistler died, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 33 and Leo Tolstoy was 74.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 8 years after James McNeill Whistler died, Napoleon died about 13 years before James McNeill Whistler was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 2 years before James McNeill Whistler was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about 7 years before James McNeill Whistler was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,445 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as James McNeill Whistler. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1869.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  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. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  46. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  50. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  53. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  54. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  55. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  56. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  57. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  58. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  59. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  60. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  63. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  64. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  65. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  66. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  67. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  68. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  74. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  75. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  81. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  82. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  83. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  85. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  86. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  87. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  88. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  89. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  90. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  91. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  92. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  93. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  94. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  95. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  96. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  97. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  98. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  99. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  100. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  101. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  102. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  103. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  110. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  111. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  112. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  113. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  114. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  115. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  116. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  117. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  118. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  119. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  120. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  121. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  122. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  123. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  124. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  125. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  126. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  127. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  128. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  129. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  130. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  131. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  132. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  133. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  134. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  135. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  136. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  137. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  138. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  139. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  140. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  141. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  142. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  143. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  144. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  145. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  146. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  147. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  148. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  149. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  150. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862