Who Was Alive

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

Born 18 August 1830 · died 21 November 1916, aged 86

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Joseph I of Austria?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  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 Franz Joseph I of Austria was born, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 1, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 80.

When Franz Joseph I of Austria died, Adolf Hitler was 27, Albert Einstein was 37, Ronald Reagan was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 46 and Mahatma Gandhi was 47.

Born during Franz Joseph I of Austria’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 2 years after Franz Joseph I of Austria died, Napoleon died 9 years before Franz Joseph I of Austria was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 3 years before Franz Joseph I of Austria was born and Elizabeth II was born 10 years after Franz Joseph I of Austria died.

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All 683 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  86. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  87. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  88. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  89. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  92. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  93. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  97. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  98. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  127. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  128. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  129. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  130. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  131. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  132. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  133. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  136. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  143. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  144. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  145. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  146. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  147. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  148. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  149. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  150. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969

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