Who Was Alive

Antoni Gaudí

Catalan architect

Born 25 June 1852 · died 10 June 1926, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Antoni Gaudí?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Antoni Gaudí
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Antoni Gaudí was born, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 23, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

When Antoni Gaudí died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

Born during Antoni Gaudí’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. was born 3 years after Antoni Gaudí died, Pope Francis was born 10 years after Antoni Gaudí died, Che Guevara was born 2 years after Antoni Gaudí died and Edgar Allan Poe died 3 years before Antoni Gaudí was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
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  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
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