Who Was Alive

Alan Turing

English computer scientist

Born 23 June 1912 · died 7 June 1954, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Alan Turing?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Salvador Dalí
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. Alan Turing
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Martin Luther King Jr.
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Alan Turing was born, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 42.

When Alan Turing died, Donald Trump was 7, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

Born during Alan Turing’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 7 years after Alan Turing died, Michael Jackson was born 4 years after Alan Turing died, Leo Tolstoy died 2 years before Alan Turing was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died 12 years before Alan Turing was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Bill Clinton born 1946
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Xi Jinping born 1953
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Bob Dylan born 1941
  84. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  95. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  98. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  99. Charles III born 1948
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Narendra Modi born 1950
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  111. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  114. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  116. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  117. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  128. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  129. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  130. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  131. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  132. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  133. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  134. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  135. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  136. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  137. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  138. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  139. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  140. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  141. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  142. Jackie Chan born 1954
  143. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  144. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  145. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  146. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  149. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  150. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004

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