Who Was Alive
Robert Falcon Scott
Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Robert Falcon Scott

British officer and explorer

Born 6 June 1868 · died c. 1912
Also known as Captain R. F. Scott, R. F. Scott, Captain Scott

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Falcon Scott?

  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. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  13. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  14. Robert Falcon Scott, 1868 – c. 1912
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Robert Falcon Scott was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before Robert Falcon Scott was born, Nelson Mandela was born about 4 years after Robert Falcon Scott died, Elizabeth II was born about 12 years after Robert Falcon Scott died and John F. Kennedy was born about 3 years after Robert Falcon Scott died.

What happened in Robert Falcon Scott’s lifetime

Where Robert Falcon Scott’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,463 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Falcon Scott. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1889.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. 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. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  47. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  48. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  51. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  52. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  53. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  54. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  55. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  56. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  62. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  69. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  70. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  71. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  72. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  80. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  81. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  82. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  83. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  84. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  85. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  87. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  88. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  89. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  90. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  91. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  92. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  93. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  94. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  97. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  98. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  99. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  100. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  101. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  102. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  103. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  104. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  105. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  106. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  107. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  108. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  109. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  110. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  111. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  112. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  113. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  114. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  115. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  116. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  117. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  118. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  119. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  120. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  121. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  122. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  123. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  124. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  125. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  126. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  127. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  128. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  129. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  130. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  131. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  132. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  133. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  134. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  135. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  136. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  137. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  138. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  139. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  140. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  141. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  142. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  143. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  144. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  145. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  146. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  147. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  148. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  149. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
  150. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876