Who Was Alive
Wilhelm Busch
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Wilhelm Busch

German painter and poet

Born 15 April 1832 · died 9 January 1908, aged 75
Also known as Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, W. Busch, busch w.

Who was alive at the same time as Wilhelm Busch?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Wilhelm Busch, 1832 – 1908
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  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. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Wilhelm Busch was born, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 23 and Victor Hugo was 30.

When Wilhelm Busch died, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 3 years after Wilhelm Busch died, Nelson Mandela was born about 10 years after Wilhelm Busch died, Napoleon died about 11 years before Wilhelm Busch was born and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died months before Wilhelm Busch was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,583 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Wilhelm Busch. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1870.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  75. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  76. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  77. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  78. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  85. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  105. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  106. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  109. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  110. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  111. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  112. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  113. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  123. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  124. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  125. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  126. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  127. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  132. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  133. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  134. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  135. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  139. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  144. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  145. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  146. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  149. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  150. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930