Who Was Alive

William McKinley

President of the United States from 1897 to 1901

Born 29 January 1843 · died 14 September 1901, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as William McKinley?

  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. William McKinley
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When William McKinley was born, Karl Marx was 24, Abraham Lincoln was 33, Leo Tolstoy was 14, Charles Darwin was 33 and Victor Hugo was 40.

When William McKinley died, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

Born during William McKinley’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 10 years after William McKinley died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 11 years before William McKinley was born, Salvador Dalí was born 3 years after William McKinley died and Alexander Pushkin died 6 years before William McKinley was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  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. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  66. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  67. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  68. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  69. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  70. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  71. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  72. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  73. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  74. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  75. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  76. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  80. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  82. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  83. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  84. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  85. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  86. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  89. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  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. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  104. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  105. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  106. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  107. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  108. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  109. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  110. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  111. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  112. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  113. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  114. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  115. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  116. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  117. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  118. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  119. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  120. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  121. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  122. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  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. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  135. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  142. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  143. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  144. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  145. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  146. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  147. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  148. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  149. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  150. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849

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