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Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard

American novelist

Born 22 January 1906 · died 11 June 1936, aged 30
Also known as Robert Ervin Howard, REH, Robert Howard

Who was alive at the same time as Robert E. Howard?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Robert E. Howard, 1906 – 1936
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Robert E. Howard was born, Adolf Hitler was 16, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 35, Mahatma Gandhi was 36 and Leo Tolstoy was 77.

When Robert E. Howard died, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 25, Nelson Mandela was 17 and Mahatma Gandhi was 66.

Born during Robert E. Howard’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara and Neil Armstrong.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 10 years after Robert E. Howard died, George W. Bush was born about 10 years after Robert E. Howard died, Joe Biden was born about 6 years after Robert E. Howard died and Friedrich Nietzsche died about 6 years before Robert E. Howard was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,062 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert E. Howard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1921.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  32. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  33. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  34. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  35. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  49. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  50. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  51. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  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. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  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. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  80. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  81. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  82. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  86. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  87. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  88. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  89. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  91. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  92. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  93. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  94. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  95. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  96. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  97. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  101. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  102. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  103. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  107. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  108. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  109. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  110. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  111. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  117. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  118. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  119. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  120. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  121. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  122. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  125. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  126. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  127. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  128. Woody Allen born 1935
  129. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  132. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  134. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  135. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  136. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  139. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  142. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  143. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  144. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924