Who Was Alive

Mark Twain

American author and humorist

Born 30 November 1835 · died 21 April 1910, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Mark Twain?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Rabindranath Tagore
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Salvador Dalí
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When Mark Twain was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Mark Twain died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 39, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

Born during Mark Twain’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after Mark Twain died, Nelson Mandela was born 8 years after Mark Twain died, Napoleon died 14 years before Mark Twain was born and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 3 years before Mark Twain was born.

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All 619 contemporaries we track

  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano 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. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  84. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  85. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  88. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  89. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  91. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  92. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  93. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  94. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  99. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  106. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  109. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  110. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  122. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  125. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  129. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  130. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  131. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  132. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  133. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  134. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  135. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  137. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  146. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  147. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  148. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  149. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  150. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968

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