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Wilhelm Steinitz
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Wilhelm Steinitz

Austrian chess player

Born 14 May 1836 · died 12 August 1900, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Wilhelm Steinitz?

  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. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Wilhelm Steinitz, 1836 – 1900
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Wilhelm Steinitz was born, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 27, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 27 and Victor Hugo was 34.

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

Born during Wilhelm Steinitz’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 11 years after Wilhelm Steinitz died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 4 years before Wilhelm Steinitz was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 9 years before Wilhelm Steinitz was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 4 years after Wilhelm Steinitz died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,358 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Wilhelm Steinitz. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1868.

  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  72. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  73. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  78. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  79. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  89. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  90. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  91. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  92. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  93. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  94. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  105. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  106. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  107. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  108. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  109. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  110. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  111. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  112. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  113. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  114. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  115. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  116. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  117. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  118. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  119. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  120. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  121. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  122. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  125. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  126. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  127. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  128. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  129. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  130. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  131. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  135. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  142. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  143. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  144. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  145. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  146. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  147. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  148. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  149. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  150. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849