Who Was Alive

Bertha von Suttner

Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor

Born 9 June 1843 · died 21 June 1914, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Bertha von Suttner?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Bertha von Suttner
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Ronald Reagan
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When Bertha von Suttner was born, Karl Marx was 25, Abraham Lincoln was 34, Leo Tolstoy was 14, Charles Darwin was 34 and Victor Hugo was 41.

When Bertha von Suttner died, Adolf Hitler was 25, Albert Einstein was 35, Ronald Reagan was 3, Vladimir Lenin was 44 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

Born during Bertha von Suttner’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born 4 years after Bertha von Suttner died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 11 years before Bertha von Suttner was born, Elizabeth II was born 12 years after Bertha von Suttner died and John F. Kennedy was born 3 years after Bertha von Suttner died.

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  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  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
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  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
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  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
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