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Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins

British writer

Born 8 January 1824 · died 23 September 1889, aged 65
Also known as William Wilkie Collins, William Collins

Who was alive at the same time as Wilkie Collins?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Wilkie Collins, 1824 – 1889
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Wilkie Collins was born, Karl Marx was 5, Abraham Lincoln was 14, Charles Darwin was 14, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 74 and Victor Hugo was 21.

When Wilkie Collins died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 19 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

Born during Wilkie Collins’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 3 years before Wilkie Collins was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 15 years after Wilkie Collins died, Mao Zedong was born about 4 years after Wilkie Collins died and Charles de Gaulle was born about a year after Wilkie Collins died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Wilkie Collins. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1857.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  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. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  75. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  76. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  80. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  81. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  87. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  88. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  89. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  90. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  91. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  92. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  93. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  94. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  95. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  96. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  97. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  98. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  99. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  100. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  101. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  102. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  103. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  104. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  105. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  106. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  107. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  108. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  109. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  110. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  111. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  112. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  113. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  114. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  115. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  116. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  117. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  118. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  119. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  120. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  121. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  122. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  123. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  124. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  125. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  126. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  127. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  128. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  129. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  130. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  131. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  132. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  133. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  134. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  135. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  136. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  137. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  138. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  139. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  140. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  141. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  142. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  143. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  144. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  145. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  146. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  147. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  148. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  149. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  150. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874