Who Was Alive

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

Born 27 October 1858 · died 6 January 1919, aged 60

Who was alive at the same time as Theodore Roosevelt?

  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. Theodore Roosevelt
  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 Theodore Roosevelt was born, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Theodore Roosevelt died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Theodore Roosevelt’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 7 years after Theodore Roosevelt died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 10 years after Theodore Roosevelt died, Marilyn Monroe was born 7 years after Theodore Roosevelt died and Che Guevara was born 9 years after Theodore Roosevelt died.

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All 643 contemporaries we track

  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. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  88. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  89. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  91. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  92. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  96. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  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. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  121. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  122. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  123. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  124. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  125. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  126. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  127. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  131. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  132. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  133. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  134. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  135. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  136. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  137. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  138. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  139. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  140. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  141. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  142. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  143. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  144. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  145. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  146. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  147. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881

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