Who Was Alive
Joseph Lister
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Joseph Lister

British surgeon

Born 5 April 1827 · died 10 February 1912, aged 84
Also known as 1st Baron Lister, Lord Lister, Lord Joseph Lister

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Lister?

  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. Joseph Lister, 1827 – 1912
  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. 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 Joseph Lister was born, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 25.

When Joseph Lister died, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 42.

Born during Joseph Lister’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about 6 years after Joseph Lister died, Napoleon died about 6 years before Joseph Lister was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died months before Joseph Lister was born and Elizabeth II was born about 14 years after Joseph Lister died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,712 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Lister. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1870.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  50. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  61. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  62. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  80. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  81. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  86. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  90. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  91. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  92. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  93. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  96. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  99. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  100. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  101. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  105. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  111. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  112. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  113. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  114. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  115. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  116. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  117. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  118. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  119. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  120. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  121. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  125. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  126. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  127. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  128. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  129. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  130. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  131. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  132. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  133. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  134. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  135. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  136. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  137. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  138. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  139. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  140. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  141. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  142. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  143. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  144. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  145. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  146. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  147. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  148. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  149. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  150. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910