Who Was Alive
Randal Cremer
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Randal Cremer

British politician

Born 18 March 1828 · died 22 July 1908, aged 80
Also known as Sir William Randal Cremer, William Cremer, William Randal Cremer

Who was alive at the same time as Randal Cremer?

  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. Randal Cremer, 1828 – 1908
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  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 Randal Cremer was born, Karl Marx was 9, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Charles Darwin was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 78 and Victor Hugo was 26.

When Randal Cremer died, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

Born during Randal Cremer’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 3 years after Randal Cremer died, Nelson Mandela was born about 10 years after Randal Cremer died, Napoleon died about 7 years before Randal Cremer was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Randal Cremer was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,624 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Randal Cremer. 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. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  88. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  89. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  90. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  92. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  93. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  94. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  95. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  96. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  97. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  98. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  99. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  100. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  101. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  102. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  103. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  104. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  105. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  106. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  107. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  108. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  109. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  110. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  111. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  114. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  115. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  116. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  117. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  118. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  119. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  120. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  121. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  122. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  123. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  124. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  125. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  126. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  127. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  130. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  131. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  132. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  133. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  134. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  135. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  136. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  137. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  138. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  139. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  140. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  141. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  142. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  143. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  144. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  145. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  146. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  147. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  150. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962