Who Was Alive

B. R. Ambedkar

Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer

Born 14 April 1891 · died 6 December 1956, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as B. R. Ambedkar?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. B. R. Ambedkar
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. John F. Kennedy
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When B. R. Ambedkar was born, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When B. R. Ambedkar died, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 45, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

Born during B. R. Ambedkar’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 5 years after B. R. Ambedkar died, Michael Jackson was born 2 years after B. R. Ambedkar died, Karl Marx died 8 years before B. R. Ambedkar was born and Charles Darwin died 9 years before B. R. Ambedkar was born.

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  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
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