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Liliʻuokalani
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Liliʻuokalani

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Born 2 September 1838 · died 11 November 1917, aged 79
Also known as Lydia K. Dominis, Queen Liliuokalani, Liliuokalani

Who was alive at the same time as Liliʻuokalani?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Liliʻuokalani, 1838 – 1917
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963

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When Liliʻuokalani was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 9, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

When Liliʻuokalani died, Adolf Hitler was 28, Albert Einstein was 38, Ronald Reagan was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 47 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Liliʻuokalani’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about a year after Liliʻuokalani died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 6 years before Liliʻuokalani was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 11 years before Liliʻuokalani was born and Elizabeth II was born about 9 years after Liliʻuokalani died.

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Where Liliʻuokalani’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,789 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Liliʻuokalani. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1878.

  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. 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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  50. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  80. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  81. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  86. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  90. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  91. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  94. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  98. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  99. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  100. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  101. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  102. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  103. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  104. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  105. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  113. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  114. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  115. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  116. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  117. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  118. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  119. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  123. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  124. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  125. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  126. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  127. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  128. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  129. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  130. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  131. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  132. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  133. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  134. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  135. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  136. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  137. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  138. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  139. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  140. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  141. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  142. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  143. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  144. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  145. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  146. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  147. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  148. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  149. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  150. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977