Who Was Alive
Natsume Sōseki
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Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist

Born 9 February 1867 · died 9 December 1916, aged 49
Also known as Natsume Kinnosuke, Soseki Natsume, Kinnosuke Natsume

Who was alive at the same time as Natsume Sōseki?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Natsume Sōseki, 1867 – 1916
  13. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Natsume Sōseki was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Natsume Sōseki died, Adolf Hitler was 27, Albert Einstein was 37, Ronald Reagan was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 46 and Mahatma Gandhi was 47.

Born during Natsume Sōseki’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 2 years before Natsume Sōseki was born, Nelson Mandela was born about 2 years after Natsume Sōseki died, Elizabeth II was born about 10 years after Natsume Sōseki died and John F. Kennedy was born about a year after Natsume Sōseki died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,619 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Natsume Sōseki. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1892.

  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. 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. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  49. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  55. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  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. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  90. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  91. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  100. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  101. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  102. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  103. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  104. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  105. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  106. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  107. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  108. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  109. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  110. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  116. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  117. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  118. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  119. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  122. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  123. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  124. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  125. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  126. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  127. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  128. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  129. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  130. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  131. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  134. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  135. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  136. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  137. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  138. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  139. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  140. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  141. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  142. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  143. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  144. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  145. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  146. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  147. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  148. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  149. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  150. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962