Who Was Alive
John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth

American stage actor

Born 10 May 1838 · died 26 April 1865, aged 26
Also known as J. W. Booth, J. Wilkes Booth

Who was alive at the same time as John Wilkes Booth?

  1. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  4. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  9. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  13. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  14. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  15. John Wilkes Booth, 1838 – 1865
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  18. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  19. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  20. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  21. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  22. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  23. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  24. Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947

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When John Wilkes Booth was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 9, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

When John Wilkes Booth died, Karl Marx was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 36, Charles Darwin was 56, Victor Hugo was 63 and Vincent van Gogh was 12.

Born during John Wilkes Booth’s lifetime: Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Rabindranath Tagore, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde and Nikola Tesla.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 14 years after John Wilkes Booth died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 5 years after John Wilkes Booth died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 4 years after John Wilkes Booth died and Joseph Stalin was born about 13 years after John Wilkes Booth died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

675 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Wilkes Booth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1852.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  6. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  10. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  11. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  27. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  29. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  30. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  31. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  32. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  33. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  34. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  39. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  41. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  50. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  51. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  52. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  53. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  54. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  55. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  56. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  57. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  58. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  59. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  60. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  61. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  63. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  64. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  65. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  66. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  67. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  68. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  69. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  70. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  71. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  72. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  73. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  74. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  75. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  76. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  79. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  80. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  81. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  82. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  83. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  84. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  85. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  86. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  87. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  88. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  89. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  90. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  91. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  92. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  93. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  94. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  95. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  96. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  97. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  98. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  99. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  100. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  101. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  102. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  103. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  104. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  105. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  106. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  107. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  108. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  109. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  110. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  111. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  112. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  113. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  114. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  115. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  116. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  117. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  118. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  119. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  120. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  121. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  122. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  123. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  124. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  125. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  126. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  127. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  128. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  129. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  130. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  131. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  132. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  133. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  134. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  135. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
  136. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  137. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  138. William James 1842 – 1910
  139. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  140. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  141. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  142. Gerhart Hauptmann 1862 – 1946
  143. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  144. Pope Pius XI 1857 – 1939
  145. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  146. J. J. Thomson 1856 – 1940
  147. Edvard Munch 1863 – 1944
  148. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  149. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  150. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928