Who Was Alive

Alexander Blok

Russian poet

Born 16 November 1880 (Julian calendar) · died 7 August 1921, aged 40

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Blok?

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When Alexander Blok was born, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

When Alexander Blok died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

Born during Alexander Blok’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born 5 years after Alexander Blok died, Charles Dickens died 10 years before Alexander Blok was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 8 years after Alexander Blok died and Hans Christian Andersen died 5 years before Alexander Blok was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  92. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  93. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  94. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  102. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  103. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  107. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  108. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  109. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  110. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  111. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  117. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  126. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  127. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  128. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  129. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  130. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  131. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  132. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  133. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  134. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  135. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  136. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  139. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  142. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  143. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  144. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  146. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  147. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  148. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  149. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  150. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967

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