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Robert Musil
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Robert Musil

Austrian writer

Born 6 November 1880 · died 15 April 1942, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Musil?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  17. Robert Musil, 1880 – 1942
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Robert Musil was born, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

When Robert Musil died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Robert Musil’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 4 years after Robert Musil died, Vladimir Putin was born about 10 years after Robert Musil died, George W. Bush was born about 4 years after Robert Musil died and Joe Biden was born months after Robert Musil died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,477 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Musil. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1911.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  72. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  73. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  77. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  78. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  93. Bob Dylan born 1941
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  96. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  97. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  98. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  99. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  100. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  101. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  115. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  116. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  117. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  118. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  119. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  120. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  121. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  122. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  123. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  124. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  125. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  126. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  127. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  128. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  129. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  132. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  133. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  134. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  135. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  136. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  137. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  138. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  139. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  140. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  141. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  142. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  143. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  144. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  145. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  146. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  147. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  148. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  149. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  150. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019