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Mihai Eminescu
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Mihai Eminescu

Romanian poet and journalist

Born 15 January 1850 · died 15 June 1889, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Mihai Eminescu?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Mihai Eminescu, 1850 – 1889
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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 Mihai Eminescu was born, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 40, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 40 and Victor Hugo was 47.

When Mihai Eminescu died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 19 and Leo Tolstoy was 60.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born about 15 years after Mihai Eminescu died, Alexander Pushkin died about 13 years before Mihai Eminescu was born, Mao Zedong was born about 4 years after Mihai Eminescu died and Edgar Allan Poe died about a year before Mihai Eminescu was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,034 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mihai Eminescu. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1870.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  36. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  39. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  40. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  41. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  42. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  43. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  44. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  45. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  46. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  47. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  48. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  49. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  50. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  51. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  52. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  53. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  54. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  55. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  57. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  58. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  59. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  60. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  61. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  62. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  64. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  65. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  67. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  68. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  69. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  70. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  71. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  72. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  73. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  74. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  75. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  76. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  77. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  78. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  79. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  80. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  81. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  82. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  83. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  84. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  85. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  86. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  87. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  88. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  89. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  90. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  91. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  92. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  93. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  94. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  95. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  96. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  97. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  98. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  99. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  100. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  101. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  102. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  103. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  104. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  105. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  106. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  107. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  108. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  109. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  110. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  111. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  112. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  113. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  114. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  115. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  116. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  117. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  118. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  119. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  120. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  121. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  122. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  123. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  124. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  125. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  126. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  127. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  128. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  129. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  130. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  131. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  132. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  133. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  134. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  135. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  136. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  137. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  138. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  139. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  140. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  141. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  142. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  143. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  144. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  145. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  146. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  147. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  148. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  149. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  150. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869