Who Was Alive
Sherwood Anderson
Alfred Stieglitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sherwood Anderson

American writer

Born 13 September 1876 · died 8 March 1941, aged 64
Also known as Buck Fever

Who was alive at the same time as Sherwood Anderson?

  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. Sherwood Anderson, 1876 – 1941
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  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

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 Sherwood Anderson was born, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 48 and Charles Darwin was 67.

When Sherwood Anderson died, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 71.

Born during Sherwood Anderson’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 5 years after Sherwood Anderson died, Vladimir Putin was born about 11 years after Sherwood Anderson died, Abraham Lincoln died about 11 years before Sherwood Anderson was born and George W. Bush was born about 5 years after Sherwood Anderson died.

What happened in Sherwood Anderson’s lifetime

Where Sherwood Anderson’s contemporaries were born

Sherwood Anderson is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (80 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Sherwood Anderson

The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,441 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sherwood Anderson. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1909.

  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. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  98. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  100. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  101. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  102. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  103. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  104. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  119. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  120. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  123. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  124. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  125. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  126. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  127. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  130. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  131. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  132. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  133. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  134. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  135. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  136. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  137. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  138. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  139. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  140. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  141. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  142. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  146. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  147. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  148. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  149. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  150. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965