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Joseph Pulitzer
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Joseph Pulitzer

Hungarian politician

Born 10 April 1847 · died 29 October 1911, aged 64
Also known as j. pulitzer, Pulitzer Jozsef, Pulitzer József

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Pulitzer?

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When Joseph Pulitzer was born, Karl Marx was 28, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 18, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

When Joseph Pulitzer died, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 42.

Born during Joseph Pulitzer’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 7 years after Joseph Pulitzer died, Elizabeth II was born about 15 years after Joseph Pulitzer died, John F. Kennedy was born about 6 years after Joseph Pulitzer died and Alexander Pushkin died about 10 years before Joseph Pulitzer was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,618 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Pulitzer. 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. 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. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  99. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  100. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  101. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  102. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  103. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  104. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  105. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  106. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  107. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  108. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  122. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  123. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  124. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  125. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  129. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  130. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  131. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  132. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  133. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  134. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  135. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  137. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  138. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  139. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  140. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  141. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  142. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  143. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  144. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  145. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  146. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  147. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  148. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  149. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  150. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968