Who Was Alive
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman

British theologian

Born 21 February 1801 · died 11 August 1890, aged 89
Also known as Catholicus, Blessed John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman

Who was alive at the same time as John Henry Newman?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. John Henry Newman, 1801 – 1890
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 John Henry Newman was born, Napoleon was 31, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 51, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was 1 and Thomas Jefferson was 57.

When John Henry Newman died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

Born during John Henry Newman’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Charles Darwin.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 2 years before John Henry Newman was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 10 years before John Henry Newman was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 14 years after John Henry Newman died and Mao Zedong was born about 3 years after John Henry Newman died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,235 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Henry Newman. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1846.

  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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  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. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  62. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  69. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  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. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  92. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  94. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  95. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  96. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  101. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  102. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  103. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  104. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  105. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  106. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  107. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  108. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  109. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  110. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  111. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  112. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  113. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  114. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  115. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  116. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  117. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  118. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  119. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  120. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  121. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  122. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  123. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  124. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  125. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  126. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  127. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  128. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  129. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  130. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  131. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  132. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  133. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  134. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  135. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  136. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  137. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  138. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  139. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  140. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  141. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  142. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  143. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  144. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  145. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  146. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  147. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  148. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  149. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  150. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850