Who Was Alive

José Martí

Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist

Born 28 January 1853 · died 19 May 1895, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as José Martí?

  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. José Martí
  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 José Martí was born, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

When José Martí died, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

Born during José Martí’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born 9 years after José Martí died, Edgar Allan Poe died 4 years before José Martí was born, Walt Disney was born 6 years after José Martí died and George Orwell was born 8 years after José Martí 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. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  40. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  41. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  42. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  43. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  44. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  45. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  46. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  47. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  56. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  57. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  58. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  59. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  60. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  63. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  64. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  65. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  66. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  67. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  68. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  69. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  70. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  71. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  72. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  73. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  74. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  75. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  76. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  77. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  78. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  79. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  80. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  81. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  82. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  83. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  84. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  85. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  86. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  87. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  88. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  89. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  90. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  91. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  92. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  93. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  94. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  95. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  96. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  97. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  98. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  99. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  100. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  101. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  102. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  103. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  104. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  105. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  106. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  107. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  108. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  109. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  110. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  111. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  112. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  113. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  114. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  115. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  116. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  117. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  118. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  119. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  120. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  121. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  122. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  123. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  124. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  125. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  126. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  127. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  128. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  129. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  130. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  131. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  132. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  133. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  134. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  135. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  136. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  137. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  138. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  139. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  140. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  141. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  142. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  143. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  144. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  145. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  146. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  147. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  148. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  149. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  150. George Eliot 1819 – 1880

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