Who Was Alive
Johanna Spyri
Ganz, Johannes, Fotograf, Schweiz, 1821-1886, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Johanna Spyri

Swiss writer

Born 12 June 1827 · died 7 July 1901, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Johanna Spyri?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Johanna Spyri, 1827 – 1901
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Johanna Spyri was born, Karl Marx was 9, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 25.

When Johanna Spyri died, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

Born during Johanna Spyri’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 10 years after Johanna Spyri died, Napoleon died about 6 years before Johanna Spyri was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died months before Johanna Spyri was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 3 years after Johanna Spyri died.

What happened in Johanna Spyri’s lifetime

Where Johanna Spyri’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,429 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johanna Spyri. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1864.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  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. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  44. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  48. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  49. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  59. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  60. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  61. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  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. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  80. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  81. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  85. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  86. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  87. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  91. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  92. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  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. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  110. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  116. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  117. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  118. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  119. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  120. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  121. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  122. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  123. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  124. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  125. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  126. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  127. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  128. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  129. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  130. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  131. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  134. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  135. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  136. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  137. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  138. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  139. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  140. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  141. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  142. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  143. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  144. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  145. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  146. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  147. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  148. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  149. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  150. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948