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Max Scheler
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Max Scheler

German philosopher

Born 22 August 1874 · died 19 May 1928, aged 53
Also known as Max Ferdinand Scheler

Who was alive at the same time as Max Scheler?

  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. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Max Scheler, 1874 – 1928
  14. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Max Scheler was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 45 and Charles Darwin was 65.

When Max Scheler died, Adolf Hitler was 39, Albert Einstein was 49, Ronald Reagan was 17, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

Born during Max Scheler’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 9 years before Max Scheler was born, Joe Biden was born about 14 years after Max Scheler died, Charles Dickens died about 4 years before Max Scheler was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about a year after Max Scheler died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,958 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Max Scheler. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1901.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  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. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  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. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  65. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  72. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  73. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  81. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  82. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  83. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  84. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  85. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  93. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  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. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  106. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  107. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  108. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  111. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  114. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  115. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  116. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  117. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  118. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  119. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  120. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  121. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  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. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  131. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  132. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  133. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  134. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  135. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  136. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  137. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  138. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  139. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  140. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  141. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  142. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  143. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  144. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  145. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  146. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  147. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  148. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  149. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  150. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910