Who Was Alive

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

Born 16 October 1854 · died 30 November 1900, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Oscar Wilde?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Oscar Wilde
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Oscar Wilde was born, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 45, Leo Tolstoy was 26, Charles Darwin was 45 and Victor Hugo was 52.

When Oscar Wilde died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

Born during Oscar Wilde’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 11 years after Oscar Wilde died, Salvador Dalí was born 4 years after Oscar Wilde died, Edgar Allan Poe died 5 years before Oscar Wilde was born and Walt Disney was born about a year after Oscar Wilde died.

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All 498 contemporaries we track

  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  40. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  41. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  42. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  43. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  44. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  50. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  52. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  53. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  54. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  57. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  58. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  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. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  73. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  74. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  75. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  76. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  77. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  78. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  79. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  80. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  81. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  82. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  83. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  84. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  85. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  86. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  89. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  90. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  91. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  92. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  93. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  94. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  95. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  96. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  97. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  98. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  99. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  100. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  101. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  102. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  103. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  104. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  105. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  106. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  107. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  108. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  109. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  110. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  111. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  112. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  113. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  114. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  115. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  116. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  117. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  118. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  119. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  120. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  121. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  122. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  123. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  124. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  125. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  126. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  127. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  128. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  129. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  130. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  131. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  132. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  133. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  134. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  135. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  136. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  137. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  138. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  139. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  140. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  141. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  142. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  143. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
  144. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  145. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  146. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  147. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  148. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  149. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  150. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923

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