Who Was Alive
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian writer

Born 27 January 1836 · died 9 March 1895, aged 59
Also known as Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Who was alive at the same time as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch?

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Leopold von Sacher-Masoch died, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

Born during Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 15 years before Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 4 years before Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 9 years before Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 9 years after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch died.

What happened in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s lifetime

Where Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s contemporaries were born

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (81 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,223 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1866.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  50. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  64. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  65. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  66. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  67. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  68. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  69. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  70. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  71. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  72. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  73. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  74. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  75. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  76. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  78. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  86. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  87. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  88. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  89. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  90. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  91. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  92. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  93. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  94. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  95. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  96. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  97. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  98. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  99. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  100. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  101. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  102. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  103. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  104. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  105. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  106. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  107. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  108. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  109. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  110. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  111. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  112. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  113. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  114. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  115. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  116. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  117. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  118. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  119. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  120. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  121. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  122. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  123. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  124. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  125. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  126. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  127. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  128. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  129. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  130. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  131. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  132. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  133. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  134. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  135. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  136. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  137. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  138. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  139. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  140. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  141. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  142. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  143. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  144. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  145. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  146. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  147. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  148. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  149. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  150. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850