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Karl Liebknecht
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Karl Liebknecht

German socialist and editor

Born 13 August 1871 · died 15 January 1919, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Karl Liebknecht?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  12. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  13. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  14. Karl Liebknecht, 1871 – 1919
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Karl Liebknecht was born, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Karl Liebknecht died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Karl Liebknecht’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 6 years before Karl Liebknecht was born, Elizabeth II was born about 7 years after Karl Liebknecht died, Charles Dickens died about a year before Karl Liebknecht was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 10 years after Karl Liebknecht died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,663 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Karl Liebknecht. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1895.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  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. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  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. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  85. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  92. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  93. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  94. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  95. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  102. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  103. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  110. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  116. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  117. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  118. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  121. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  126. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  127. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  128. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  129. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  130. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  131. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  132. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  134. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  135. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  136. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  137. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  140. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  141. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  142. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  143. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  144. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  145. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  146. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  147. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  148. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924