Who Was Alive

Henry Dunant

Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross

Born 8 May 1828 · died 30 October 1910, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Henry Dunant?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Victor Hugo
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Charles Dickens
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Henry Dunant
  9. Leo Tolstoy
  10. Mark Twain
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Thomas Edison
  13. Vincent van Gogh
  14. Sigmund Freud
  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 Henry Dunant was born, Karl Marx was 10, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Charles Darwin was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 78 and Victor Hugo was 26.

When Henry Dunant died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 41 and Leo Tolstoy was 82.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after Henry Dunant died, Nelson Mandela was born 8 years after Henry Dunant died, Napoleon died 7 years before Henry Dunant was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Henry Dunant 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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
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  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
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  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
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  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  89. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
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  93. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  94. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  98. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  99. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  100. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  101. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
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  108. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  110. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  111. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  112. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  113. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  114. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  117. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  118. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  119. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  121. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
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  123. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  124. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  125. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  126. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  127. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  130. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  131. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
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  135. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  136. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  137. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  138. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  139. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  140. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  141. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  142. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  143. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  144. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  145. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  146. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  147. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  148. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
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