Who Was Alive

Nicholas II of Russia

14th and last Emperor of Russia

Born 18 May 1868 · died 17 July 1918, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Nicholas II of Russia?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Charles Dickens
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Marie Curie
  13. Nicholas II of Russia
  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. John F. Kennedy
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When Nicholas II of Russia was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When Nicholas II of Russia died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Nicholas II of Russia’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 3 years before Nicholas II of Russia was born, Nelson Mandela was born months after Nicholas II of Russia died, Elizabeth II was born 8 years after Nicholas II of Russia died and Martin Luther King Jr. was born 11 years after Nicholas II of Russia 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. 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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  95. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  100. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  101. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  102. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  103. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  107. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  108. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  109. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  110. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  111. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  117. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  126. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  127. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  128. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  129. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  130. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  131. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  132. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  134. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  135. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  136. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  137. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  138. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  139. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  140. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  141. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  142. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  143. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  144. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  145. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  146. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  147. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  148. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924

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