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Multatuli

Dutch writer

Born 2 March 1820 · died 19 February 1887, aged 66

Who was alive at the same time as Multatuli?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Multatuli, 1820 – 1887
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Multatuli was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 11, Napoleon was 50, Charles Darwin was 11 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 70.

When Multatuli died, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 17, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

Born during Multatuli’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 2 years after Multatuli died, Charlie Chaplin was born about 2 years after Multatuli died, Mao Zedong was born about 6 years after Multatuli died and Charles de Gaulle was born about 3 years after Multatuli died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,120 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Multatuli. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1854.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  51. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  52. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  53. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  54. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  55. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  56. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  57. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  58. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  59. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  60. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  61. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  69. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  70. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  74. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  75. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  76. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  77. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  78. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  79. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  80. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  81. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  85. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  86. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  87. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  88. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  89. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  90. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  91. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  92. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  93. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  94. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  95. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  96. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  97. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  98. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  99. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  100. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  101. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  102. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  103. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  104. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  105. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  106. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  107. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  108. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  109. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  110. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  111. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  112. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  113. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  114. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  115. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  116. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  117. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  118. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  119. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  120. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  121. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  122. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  123. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  124. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  125. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  126. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  127. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  128. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  129. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  130. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  131. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  132. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  133. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  134. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  135. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  136. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  137. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  138. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  139. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  140. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  141. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  142. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  143. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  144. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  145. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  146. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  147. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  148. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  149. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  150. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841