Who Was Alive

Cecil John Rhodes

British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa

Born 5 July 1853 · died 26 March 1902, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Cecil John Rhodes?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Cecil John Rhodes
  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 Cecil John Rhodes was born, Karl Marx was 35, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

When Cecil John Rhodes died, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

Born during Cecil John Rhodes’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 9 years after Cecil John Rhodes died, Salvador Dalí was born 2 years after Cecil John Rhodes died, Edgar Allan Poe died 4 years before Cecil John Rhodes was born and George Orwell was born about a year after Cecil John Rhodes died.

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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. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  66. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  67. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  68. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  69. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  70. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  71. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  72. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  73. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  74. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  75. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  76. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  77. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  78. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  84. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  85. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  87. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  88. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  89. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  90. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  91. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  92. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  93. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  94. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  95. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  96. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  97. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  98. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  99. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  100. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  101. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  102. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  103. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  104. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  105. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  106. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  107. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  108. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  109. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  110. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  111. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  112. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  113. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  114. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  115. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  116. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  117. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  118. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  119. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  120. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  121. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  122. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  123. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  124. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  125. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  126. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  127. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  128. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  129. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  130. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  131. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  132. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  133. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  134. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  135. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  136. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  137. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  138. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  139. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  140. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  141. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  142. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  143. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  144. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  145. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  149. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  150. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936

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