Who Was Alive

Sitting Bull

Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

Born c. 1831 · died 15 December 1890

Who was alive at the same time as Sitting Bull?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Sitting Bull
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Sitting Bull died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died 7 years before Sitting Bull was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Sitting Bull was born, Salvador Dalí was born 14 years after Sitting Bull died and Mao Zedong was born 3 years after Sitting Bull died.

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All 457 contemporaries we track

  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano 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. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  40. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  41. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  42. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  50. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  52. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  53. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  54. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  57. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  59. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  60. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  61. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  62. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  63. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  64. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  65. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  66. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  67. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  68. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  69. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  70. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  71. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  72. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  73. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  74. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  75. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  76. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  77. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  78. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  79. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  82. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  83. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  84. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  85. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  86. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  89. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  90. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  91. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  92. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  93. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  94. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  95. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  96. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  97. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  98. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  99. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  100. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  101. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  102. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  103. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  104. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  105. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  106. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  107. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  108. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  109. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  110. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  111. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  112. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  113. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  114. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  115. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  116. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  117. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  118. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  119. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  120. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  121. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  122. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  123. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  124. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  125. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  126. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  127. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  128. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  129. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  130. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  131. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  132. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  133. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  134. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  135. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  136. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  137. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  138. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  139. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  140. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  141. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  142. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  143. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  144. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  145. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  146. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  147. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  148. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  149. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  150. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944

The 150 best known are listed.