Who Was Alive

Benjamin Harrison

President of the United States, 1889-1893

Born 20 August 1833 · died 13 March 1901, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Benjamin Harrison?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Benjamin Harrison was born, Karl Marx was 15, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 4, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 31.

When Benjamin Harrison died, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

Born during Benjamin Harrison’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 10 years after Benjamin Harrison died, Napoleon died 12 years before Benjamin Harrison was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about a year before Benjamin Harrison was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 6 years before Benjamin Harrison was born.

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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano 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. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  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. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  62. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  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. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  78. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  79. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  80. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  81. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  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. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  88. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  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. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  97. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  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 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  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. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  125. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  126. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  127. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  130. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  131. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  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

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