Who Was Alive

O. Henry

American short story writer

Born 11 September 1862 · died 5 June 1910, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as O. Henry?

  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. O. Henry
  14. Marie Curie
  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. Salvador Dalí
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When O. Henry was born, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 34, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

When O. Henry died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

Born during O. Henry’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after O. Henry died, Nelson Mandela was born 8 years after O. Henry died, John F. Kennedy was born 7 years after O. Henry died and Edgar Allan Poe died 13 years before O. Henry was born.

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  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. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
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  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
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  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  66. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
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  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
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  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  82. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  87. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  88. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  90. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  91. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  96. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
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  114. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  115. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  116. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
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  118. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  119. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  120. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  121. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  122. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  123. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  124. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  125. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  126. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  127. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  128. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  129. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  130. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  131. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  132. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  133. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  134. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  135. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  136. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  137. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  138. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
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  140. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  141. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  142. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  143. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  144. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
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