Who Was Alive

Anne Frank

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim

Born 12 June 1929 · died February 1945, aged 15

Who was alive at the same time as Anne Frank?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Mao Zedong
  15. Salvador Dalí
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Marilyn Monroe
  21. Martin Luther King Jr.
  22. Anne Frank
  23. Pope Francis
  24. Joe Biden
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When Anne Frank was born, Adolf Hitler was 40, Albert Einstein was 50, Ronald Reagan was 18, Nelson Mandela was 10 and Mahatma Gandhi was 59.

When Anne Frank died, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 65, Ronald Reagan was 33 or 34, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

Born during Anne Frank’s lifetime: Joe Biden, Pope Francis, Neil Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking and Muammar Gaddafi.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Anne Frank died, Michael Jackson was born 13 years after Anne Frank died, Vladimir Putin was born 7 years after Anne Frank died and Vladimir Lenin died 5 years before Anne Frank was born.

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All 720 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  7. Joe Biden born 1942
  8. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  22. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  27. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  28. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  29. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  30. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  31. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  32. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  33. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  34. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  36. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  50. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  58. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  61. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  62. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  68. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  69. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  70. Bob Dylan born 1941
  71. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  72. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  73. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  74. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  78. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  83. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  84. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  85. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  91. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  92. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  93. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  94. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  95. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  96. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  97. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  98. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  101. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  102. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  103. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  104. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  105. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  106. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  107. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  108. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  109. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  110. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  111. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  112. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  113. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  114. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  115. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  116. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  117. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  118. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  119. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  120. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  121. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  122. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  123. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  124. Woody Allen born 1935
  125. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  126. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  127. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  128. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  129. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  130. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  131. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  134. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  135. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  136. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  137. Jim Morrison 1943 – 1971
  138. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  139. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  140. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  141. Paul McCartney born 1942
  142. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  143. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  144. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  145. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  146. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  147. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  148. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  149. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  150. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020

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