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José Rizal
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José Rizal

Filipino writer and polymath

Born 19 June 1861 · died 30 December 1896, aged 35
Also known as Dimasalang, Laong Laan, José P. Rizal

Who was alive at the same time as José Rizal?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  14. José Rizal, 1861 – 1896
  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 José Rizal was born, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

When José Rizal died, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

Born during José Rizal’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 15 years after José Rizal died, Salvador Dalí was born about 8 years after José Rizal died, Edgar Allan Poe died about 12 years before José Rizal was born and Walt Disney was born about 5 years after José Rizal died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,138 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as José Rizal. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1879.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  41. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  42. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  43. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  44. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  45. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  46. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  48. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  49. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  56. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  57. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  58. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  59. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  60. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  61. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  62. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  63. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  64. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  65. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  66. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  67. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  68. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  69. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  70. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  71. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  72. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  74. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  75. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  76. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  77. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  78. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  79. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  80. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  81. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  82. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  83. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  84. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  85. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  86. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  87. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  88. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  89. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  90. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  91. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  92. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  93. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  94. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  95. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  96. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  97. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  98. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  99. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  100. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  101. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  106. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  107. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  108. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  109. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  110. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  111. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  112. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  113. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  114. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  115. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  116. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  117. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  118. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  119. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  120. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  121. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  122. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  123. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  124. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  125. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  126. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  127. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  128. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  129. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  130. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  131. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  132. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  133. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  140. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  141. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  142. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  143. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  144. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  145. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  146. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  147. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  148. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  149. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  150. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963