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Leoš Janáček
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Leoš Janáček

Czech composer

Born 3 July 1854 · died 12 August 1928, aged 74
Also known as Leo Eugen Janáček, L. Janáček, Leos Janácek

Who was alive at the same time as Leoš Janáček?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Leoš Janáček, 1854 – 1928
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  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. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Leoš Janáček was born, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 45, Leo Tolstoy was 25, Charles Darwin was 45 and Victor Hugo was 52.

When Leoš Janáček died, Adolf Hitler was 39, Albert Einstein was 49, Ronald Reagan was 17, Nelson Mandela was 10 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

Born during Leoš Janáček’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 14 years after Leoš Janáček died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about a year after Leoš Janáček died, Pope Francis was born about 8 years after Leoš Janáček died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 5 years before Leoš Janáček was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,075 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leoš Janáček. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1891.

  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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  57. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  88. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  89. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  90. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  91. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  92. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  93. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  94. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  95. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  98. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  99. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  100. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  101. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  102. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  105. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  106. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  107. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  108. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  109. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  110. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  111. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  112. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  113. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  114. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  115. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  116. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  117. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  122. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  123. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  124. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  125. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  126. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  127. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  128. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  129. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  131. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  132. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  133. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  134. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  135. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  136. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  137. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  138. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  139. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  140. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  141. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  142. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  145. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  148. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  149. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  150. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988