Who Was Alive

Swami Vivekananda

Indian Hindu monk and philosopher

Born 12 January 1863 · died 4 July 1902, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Swami Vivekananda?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Rabindranath Tagore
  14. Swami Vivekananda
  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 Swami Vivekananda was born, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 34, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

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

Born during Swami Vivekananda’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 9 years after Swami Vivekananda died, John F. Kennedy was born 15 years after Swami Vivekananda died, Salvador Dalí was born 2 years after Swami Vivekananda died and Edgar Allan Poe died 14 years before Swami Vivekananda was born.

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All 494 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. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  50. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  60. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  65. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  66. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  67. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  68. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  69. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  70. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  71. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  75. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  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. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  82. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  85. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  86. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  87. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  88. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  89. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  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. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  106. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  107. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  108. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  109. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  110. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  111. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  112. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  113. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  114. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  115. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  116. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  117. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  118. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  119. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  120. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  121. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  122. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  123. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  124. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  125. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  126. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  127. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  128. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  129. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  130. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  131. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  132. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  133. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  134. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  135. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  136. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  137. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  138. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  139. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  140. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  141. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  142. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  143. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
  144. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  145. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  146. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  147. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  148. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  149. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  150. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960

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