Who Was Alive

Wilhelm II

As King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918

Born 27 January 1859 · died 4 June 1941, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Wilhelm II?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Wilhelm II
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Wilhelm II was born, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Wilhelm II died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 71.

Born during Wilhelm II’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 5 years after Wilhelm II died, Vladimir Putin was born 11 years after Wilhelm II died, George W. Bush was born 5 years after Wilhelm II died and Joe Biden was born about a year after Wilhelm II died.

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All 906 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  45. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  60. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  61. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  62. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  73. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  74. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  90. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  98. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  102. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  103. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  104. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  105. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  106. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  107. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  108. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  109. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  110. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  111. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  112. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  113. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  114. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  115. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  116. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  121. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  122. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  123. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  124. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  125. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  126. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  127. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  130. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  131. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  132. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  133. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  134. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  135. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  136. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  137. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  138. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  139. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  140. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  141. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  142. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  147. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  148. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  149. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  150. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933

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