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Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Steiner

Austrian occultist

Born 27 February 1861 · died 30 March 1925, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Rudolf Steiner?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Rudolf Steiner, 1861 – 1925
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Rudolf Steiner was born, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

When Rudolf Steiner died, Adolf Hitler was 35, Albert Einstein was 46, Ronald Reagan was 14, Nelson Mandela was 6 and Mahatma Gandhi was 55.

Born during Rudolf Steiner’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born about a year after Rudolf Steiner died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 4 years after Rudolf Steiner died, Marilyn Monroe was born about a year after Rudolf Steiner died and Pope Francis was born about 11 years after Rudolf Steiner died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,904 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rudolf Steiner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1893.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  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. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  61. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  62. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  80. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  81. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  85. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  86. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  87. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  94. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  95. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  96. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  97. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  98. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  109. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  110. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  111. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  112. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  113. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  114. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  115. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  116. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  117. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  118. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  119. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  120. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  121. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  122. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  123. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  124. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  125. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  126. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  127. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  128. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  129. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  130. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  131. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  132. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  133. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  134. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  135. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  136. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  137. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  138. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  139. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  140. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  141. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  142. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  143. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  144. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  145. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  146. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  147. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  148. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  149. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  150. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925