Who Was Alive
Thérèse of Lisieux
Céline Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thérèse of Lisieux

French nun

Born 2 January 1873 · died 30 September 1897, aged 24
Also known as Therese of Lisieux, Saint Therese of Lisieux, Therese Martin

Who was alive at the same time as Thérèse of Lisieux?

  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. Thérèse of Lisieux, 1873 – 1897
  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 Thérèse of Lisieux was born, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

When Thérèse of Lisieux died, Adolf Hitler was 8, Albert Einstein was 18, Vladimir Lenin was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 69.

Born during Thérèse of Lisieux’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 14 years after Thérèse of Lisieux died, Abraham Lincoln died about 8 years before Thérèse of Lisieux was born, Charles Dickens died about 3 years before Thérèse of Lisieux was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 7 years after Thérèse of Lisieux died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,097 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Thérèse of Lisieux. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1885.

  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. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  39. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  40. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  41. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  42. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  44. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  45. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  46. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  47. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  49. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  50. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  51. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  52. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  53. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  54. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  55. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  56. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  57. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  58. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  59. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  60. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  61. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  62. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  63. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  64. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  65. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  66. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  69. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  70. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  71. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  72. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  73. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  74. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  75. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  76. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  77. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  78. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  79. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  80. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  81. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  82. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  83. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  84. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  85. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  86. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  87. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  88. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  89. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  90. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  91. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  92. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  93. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  94. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  95. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  96. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  97. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  98. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  99. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  100. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  101. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  102. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  103. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  104. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  105. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  106. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  107. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  108. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  109. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  110. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  111. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  112. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  113. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  114. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  115. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  116. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  117. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  118. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  119. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  120. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  121. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  122. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  123. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  124. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  125. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  126. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  127. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  128. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  129. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  130. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  131. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  132. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  133. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  134. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  135. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  136. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  137. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  138. Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
  139. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  140. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  141. Pope John XXIII 1881 – 1963
  142. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  143. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  144. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  145. Alexander Fleming 1881 – 1955
  146. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  147. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  148. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  149. David Ben-Gurion 1886 – 1973
  150. Francisco Franco 1892 – 1975