Who Was Alive
Samuel Butler
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Samuel Butler

British novelist

Born 4 December 1835 · died 18 June 1902, aged 66
Also known as Cellarius

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel Butler?

  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. Samuel Butler, 1835 – 1902
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Samuel Butler was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Samuel Butler died, Adolf Hitler was 13, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 32, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

Born during Samuel Butler’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 9 years after Samuel Butler died, Napoleon died about 14 years before Samuel Butler was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 3 years before Samuel Butler was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about 8 years before Samuel Butler was born.

What happened in Samuel Butler’s lifetime

Where Samuel Butler’s contemporaries were born

Samuel Butler is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (81 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Samuel Butler

The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,411 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Samuel Butler. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1869.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  59. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  60. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  61. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  74. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  75. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  76. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  77. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  78. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  79. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  80. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  81. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  85. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  91. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  92. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  93. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  94. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  95. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  96. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  97. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  98. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  99. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  100. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  101. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  102. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  103. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  104. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  105. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  106. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  107. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  108. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  109. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  110. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  111. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  112. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  113. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  114. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  115. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  116. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  117. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  118. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  119. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  120. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  121. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  122. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  123. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  124. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  125. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  126. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  127. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  128. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  129. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  130. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  131. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  132. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  133. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  134. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  135. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  136. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  137. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  138. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  139. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  140. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  141. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  142. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  143. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  144. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  145. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  146. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  147. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  148. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  149. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  150. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908