Who Was Alive
Max Müller
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Max Müller

German-born philologist and orientalist

Born 6 December 1823 · died 28 October 1900, aged 76
Also known as Friedrich Max Müller, Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller, Professor Friedrich Max-Muller

Who was alive at the same time as Max Müller?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Max Müller, 1823 – 1900
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Max Müller was born, Karl Marx was 5, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 74 and Victor Hugo was 21.

When Max Müller died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

Born during Max Müller’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 11 years after Max Müller died, Napoleon died about 2 years before Max Müller was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 4 years after Max Müller died and Walt Disney was born about a year after Max Müller died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,428 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Max Müller. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1862.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  47. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  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. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  75. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  76. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  77. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  78. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  84. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  85. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  86. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  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. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  103. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  111. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  112. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  113. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  125. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  126. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  127. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  132. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  133. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  134. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  135. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  139. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  144. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  145. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  146. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924