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1800 CE – 2026 CE

Figures of the modern era

63 figures whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

No region recorded · 63

Immanuel Kant 1724 CE – 1804 CE John Adams 1735 CE – 1826 CE Thomas Jefferson 1743 CE – 1826 CE James Madison 1751 CE – 1836 CE Alexander Hamilton 1755 CE – 1804 CE Andrew Jackson 1767 CE – 1845 CE Tecumseh 1768 CE – 1813 CE Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 CE – 1821 CE Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 CE – 1827 CE Jane Austen 1775 CE – 1817 CE Robert E. Lee 1807 CE – 1870 CE Abraham Lincoln 1809 CE – 1865 CE Charles Darwin 1809 CE – 1882 CE Edgar Allan Poe 1809 CE – 1849 CE Charles Dickens 1812 CE – 1870 CE Richard Wagner 1813 CE – 1883 CE Otto von Bismarck 1815 CE – 1898 CE Karl Marx 1818 CE – 1883 CE Queen Victoria 1819 CE – 1901 CE Ulysses S. Grant 1822 CE – 1885 CE Sitting Bull 1831 CE – 1890 CE Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 CE – 1900 CE Thomas Edison 1847 CE – 1931 CE Vincent van Gogh 1853 CE – 1890 CE Oscar Wilde 1854 CE – 1900 CE Nikola Tesla 1856 CE – 1943 CE Sigmund Freud 1856 CE – 1939 CE Woodrow Wilson 1856 CE – 1924 CE Theodore Roosevelt 1858 CE – 1919 CE Rabindranath Tagore 1861 CE – 1941 CE Henry Ford 1863 CE – 1947 CE Marie Curie 1867 CE – 1934 CE Wright Brothers 1867 CE – 1948 CE Mahatma Gandhi 1869 CE – 1948 CE Winston Churchill 1874 CE – 1965 CE Carl Jung 1875 CE – 1961 CE Joseph Stalin 1878 CE – 1953 CE Martin Buber 1878 CE – 1965 CE Albert Einstein 1879 CE – 1955 CE Pablo Picasso 1881 CE – 1973 CE Franz Kafka 1883 CE – 1924 CE Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 CE – 1962 CE Franz Rosenzweig 1886 CE – 1929 CE Adolf Hitler 1889 CE – 1945 CE Ernest Hemingway 1899 CE – 1961 CE Langston Hughes 1901 CE – 1967 CE Walt Disney 1901 CE – 1966 CE George Orwell 1903 CE – 1950 CE Deng Xiaoping 1904 CE – 1997 CE Emmanuel Levinas 1906 CE – 1995 CE Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907 CE – 1972 CE Frida Kahlo 1907 CE – 1954 CE Mother Teresa 1910 CE – 1997 CE Ronald Reagan 1911 CE – 2004 CE John F. Kennedy 1917 CE – 1963 CE Nelson Mandela 1918 CE – 2013 CE Margaret Thatcher 1925 CE – 2013 CE Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 CE – 1968 CE Elvis Presley 1935 CE – 1977 CE Kofi Annan 1938 CE – 2018 CE John Lennon 1940 CE – 1980 CE Wangari Maathai 1940 CE – 2011 CE Steve Jobs 1955 CE – 2011 CE