Who Was Alive
John Muir
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John Muir

Scottish naturalist

Born 21 April 1838 · died 24 December 1914, aged 76
Also known as J. Muir

Who was alive at the same time as John Muir?

  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. John Muir, 1838 – 1914
  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 John Muir was born, Karl Marx was 19, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 9, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

When John Muir died, Adolf Hitler was 25, Albert Einstein was 35, Ronald Reagan was 3, Vladimir Lenin was 44 and Mahatma Gandhi was 45.

Born during John Muir’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 4 years after John Muir died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 6 years before John Muir was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 11 years before John Muir was born and Elizabeth II was born about 12 years after John Muir died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,719 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Muir. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1876.

  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. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  89. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  90. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  96. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  104. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  105. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  106. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  107. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  108. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  109. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  110. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  111. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  112. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  113. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  116. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  117. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  118. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  119. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  120. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  121. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  122. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  123. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  124. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  125. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  126. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  127. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  128. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  129. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  130. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  131. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  132. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  133. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  134. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  135. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  136. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  137. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  138. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  139. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  140. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  141. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  142. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  143. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  144. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  145. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  146. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  147. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  148. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  149. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  150. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873