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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder

American children's writer and journalist

Born 7 February 1867 · died 10 February 1957, aged 90
Also known as Laura Ingalls, Lansford Ingalls, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls

Who was alive at the same time as Laura Ingalls Wilder?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 – 1957
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When Laura Ingalls Wilder was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Laura Ingalls Wilder died, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

Born during Laura Ingalls Wilder’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Vladimir Lenin and Mahatma Gandhi.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 4 years after Laura Ingalls Wilder died, Michael Jackson was born about a year after Laura Ingalls Wilder died, Abraham Lincoln died about 2 years before Laura Ingalls Wilder was born and Jimmy Wales was born about 9 years after Laura Ingalls Wilder died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,304 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Laura Ingalls Wilder. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1912.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  39. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  40. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  41. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  42. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  43. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  44. Bill Clinton born 1946
  45. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. Angela Merkel born 1954
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  58. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  61. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  62. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  68. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  78. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  79. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  80. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  82. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  83. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  84. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  86. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  87. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  88. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  89. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  90. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  91. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  92. Xi Jinping born 1953
  93. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  94. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  95. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  96. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  99. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  100. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  101. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  102. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  103. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  104. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  105. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  106. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  109. Bob Dylan born 1941
  110. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  111. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  114. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  115. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  116. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  117. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  118. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  119. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  120. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  121. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  122. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  123. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  124. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  133. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  134. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  135. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  136. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  137. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  140. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  141. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  145. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  146. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  147. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  148. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  149. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  150. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945