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Leopold von Ranke
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Leopold von Ranke

Prussian historian

Born 20–21 December 1795 · died 23 May 1886, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Leopold von Ranke?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  5. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  6. Leopold von Ranke, 1795 – 1886
  7. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  8. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  9. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  13. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Leopold von Ranke was born, Napoleon was 26, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 46, George Washington was 63, Immanuel Kant was 71 and Thomas Jefferson was 52.

When Leopold von Ranke died, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 7.

Born during Leopold von Ranke’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 3 years after Leopold von Ranke died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 4 years before Leopold von Ranke was born, Charlie Chaplin was born about 3 years after Leopold von Ranke died and Mao Zedong was born about 7 years after Leopold von Ranke died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,167 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leopold von Ranke. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1841.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  60. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  61. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  62. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  65. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  66. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  72. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  73. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  78. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  79. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  83. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  84. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  89. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  90. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  91. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  92. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  93. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  94. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  97. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  98. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  99. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  100. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  101. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  102. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  103. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  104. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  105. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  106. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  107. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  108. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  109. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  110. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  111. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  112. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  113. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  114. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  115. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  116. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  117. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  118. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  119. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  120. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  121. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  122. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  125. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  126. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  127. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  128. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  129. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  130. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  131. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  132. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  133. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  134. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  135. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  136. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  137. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  138. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  139. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  140. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  141. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  142. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  143. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  144. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  145. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  149. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  150. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876