Who Was Alive

Wilhelm I

19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia

Born 22 March 1797 · died 9 March 1888, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Wilhelm I?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Napoleon
  6. Wilhelm I
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Charles Darwin
  10. Karl Marx
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Leo Tolstoy
  13. Mark Twain
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. Thomas Edison
  16. Vincent van Gogh
  17. Sigmund Freud
  18. Mahatma Gandhi
  19. Vladimir Lenin
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Joseph Stalin
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Pablo Picasso
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When Wilhelm I was born, Napoleon was 27, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 72 and Thomas Jefferson was 53.

When Wilhelm I died, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

Born during Wilhelm I’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about a year after Wilhelm I died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 6 years before Wilhelm I was born, Charlie Chaplin was born about a year after Wilhelm I died and Mao Zedong was born 5 years after Wilhelm I died.

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All 492 contemporaries we track

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  45. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  52. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  53. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  61. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  62. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  66. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  67. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  68. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  69. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  70. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  71. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  72. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  78. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  79. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  83. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  87. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  88. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  89. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  90. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  91. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  92. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  93. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  94. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  97. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  100. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  101. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  102. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  103. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  104. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  105. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  106. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  107. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  108. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  109. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  110. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  111. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  112. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  113. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  119. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  120. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  121. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  122. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  123. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  124. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  125. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  126. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  127. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  130. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  131. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  132. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  133. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  134. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  135. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  136. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  137. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  138. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  139. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  140. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  141. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  142. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  143. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  144. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  145. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  146. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  147. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  148. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  149. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  150. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822

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