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Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane

American novelist and poet

Born 1 November 1871 · died 5 June 1900, aged 28
Also known as Johnston Smith

Who was alive at the same time as Stephen Crane?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  13. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Stephen Crane, 1871 – 1900
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Stephen Crane was born, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 43 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Stephen Crane died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

Born during Stephen Crane’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 11 years after Stephen Crane died, Abraham Lincoln died about 6 years before Stephen Crane was born, Charles Dickens died about a year before Stephen Crane was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 4 years after Stephen Crane died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Stephen Crane. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1886.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  33. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  34. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  35. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  36. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  37. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  38. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  39. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  40. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  41. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  42. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  43. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  44. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  45. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  46. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  48. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  49. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  56. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  57. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  58. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  59. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  60. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  63. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  64. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  65. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  66. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  68. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  69. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  70. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  71. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  72. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  73. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  74. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  75. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  76. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  77. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  78. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  79. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  80. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  81. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  82. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  83. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  84. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  85. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  86. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  87. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  88. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  89. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  90. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  91. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  92. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  93. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  94. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  95. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  96. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  97. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  98. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  99. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  100. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  101. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  102. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  103. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  104. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  105. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  106. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  107. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  108. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  109. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  110. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  111. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  112. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  113. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  114. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  115. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  116. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  117. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  118. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  119. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  120. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  121. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  122. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  123. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  124. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  125. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  126. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  127. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  128. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  129. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  130. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  131. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
  132. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  133. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  134. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  135. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  136. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  137. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  138. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  139. Joseph Goebbels 1897 – 1945
  140. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  141. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  142. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  143. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  144. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  145. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  146. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  147. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  148. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  149. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  150. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963