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Martin Buber
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Martin Buber

German existentialist and philosopher

Born 8 February 1878 · died 13 June 1965, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Martin Buber?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Martin Buber, 1878 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Martin Buber was born, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

When Martin Buber died, Barack Obama was 3, Donald Trump was 18, Michael Jackson was 6, Vladimir Putin was 12 and Ronald Reagan was 54.

Born during Martin Buber’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 13 years before Martin Buber was born, Charles Dickens died about 8 years before Martin Buber was born, Hans Christian Andersen died about 3 years before Martin Buber was born and Jimmy Wales was born about a year after Martin Buber died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,589 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Martin Buber. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1922.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  24. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  25. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  28. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  29. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  30. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  31. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  34. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  39. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  40. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  41. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  42. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  43. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  44. Bill Clinton born 1946
  45. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  58. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  61. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  62. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  63. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  64. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  65. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  66. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  67. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  78. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  79. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  80. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  82. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  83. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  84. Madonna born 1958
  85. Kamala Harris born 1964
  86. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  87. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  88. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  89. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  90. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  91. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  92. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  93. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  94. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  95. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  96. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  97. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  98. Xi Jinping born 1953
  99. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  100. Naruhito born 1960
  101. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  102. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  103. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  104. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  105. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  106. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  107. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  108. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  109. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  110. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  111. Bob Dylan born 1941
  112. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  113. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  114. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  115. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  116. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  117. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  118. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  119. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  120. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  121. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  122. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  123. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  124. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  125. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  128. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  129. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  130. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  131. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  132. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  133. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  134. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  135. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  137. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  140. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  141. Rafael Correa born 1963
  142. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  143. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  144. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  145. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  146. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  147. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  148. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  149. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  150. Steven Spielberg born 1946