Who Was Alive

Max Weber

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist

Born 21 April 1864 · died 14 June 1920, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Max Weber?

  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. Sigmund Freud
  13. Max Weber
  14. Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Vladimir Lenin
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Max Weber was born, Karl Marx was 45, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

When Max Weber died, Adolf Hitler was 31, Albert Einstein was 41, Ronald Reagan was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

Born during Max Weber’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born 6 years after Max Weber died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 9 years after Max Weber died, Marilyn Monroe was born 6 years after Max Weber died and Che Guevara was born 8 years after Max Weber died.

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  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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  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. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  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. 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. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  93. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  98. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  99. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  100. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  101. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  102. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  103. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  104. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  105. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  106. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  110. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  111. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  112. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  113. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  114. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  115. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  116. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  117. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  118. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  119. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  120. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  121. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  122. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  123. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  124. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  125. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  126. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  127. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  128. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  129. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  130. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  131. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  132. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  133. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  134. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  135. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  136. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  137. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  138. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  139. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  140. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  141. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  144. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  147. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  150. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962

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