Joseph Merrick
1862–1890
British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man
artist
Born in Leicester
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Joseph Merrick:
- Karl Marx (1818–1883)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Winston Churchill (1874–1965)