Who Was Alive
Jerome K. Jerome
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Jerome K. Jerome

British humorist

Born 2 May 1859 · died 14 June 1927, aged 68
Also known as Jerome Klapka Jerome, Jerome Klapta Jerome

Who was alive at the same time as Jerome K. Jerome?

  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. Jerome K. Jerome, 1859 – 1927
  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 Jerome K. Jerome was born, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

When Jerome K. Jerome died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 2 years after Jerome K. Jerome died, Pope Francis was born about 9 years after Jerome K. Jerome died, Che Guevara was born about a year after Jerome K. Jerome died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 10 years before Jerome K. Jerome was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,006 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jerome K. Jerome. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1893.

  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. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  67. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  91. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  92. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  93. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  94. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  96. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  102. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  117. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  120. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  121. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  125. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  126. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  127. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  128. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  129. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  130. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  131. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  132. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  133. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  134. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  135. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  136. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  137. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  140. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  141. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  142. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  145. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  146. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  147. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  148. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  149. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  150. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894