Who Was Alive
Oscar II
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Oscar II

Monarch of Norway

Born 21 January 1829 · died 8 December 1907, aged 78
Also known as Oscar II of Sweden

Who was alive at the same time as Oscar II?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Oscar II, 1829 – 1907
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Oscar II was born, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 19 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79.

When Oscar II died, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 4 years after Oscar II died, Nelson Mandela was born about 11 years after Oscar II died, Napoleon died about 8 years before Oscar II was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about 2 years before Oscar II was born.

What happened in Oscar II’s lifetime

Where Oscar II’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,601 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Oscar II. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1868.

  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. 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. 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. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  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. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  86. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  87. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  88. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  91. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  92. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  99. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  100. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  101. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  102. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  103. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  104. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  105. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  106. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  107. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  108. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  111. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  112. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  113. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  114. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  115. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  116. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  117. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  118. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  119. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  120. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  121. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  122. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  123. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  124. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  125. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  126. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  127. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  131. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  132. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  133. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  134. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  135. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  136. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  137. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  138. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  139. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  140. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  141. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  145. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  146. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  147. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  148. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  149. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  150. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976