Who Was Alive

Béla Bartók

Hungarian composer and pianist

Born 25 March 1881 · died 26 September 1945, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Béla Bartók?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Mark Twain
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Sigmund Freud
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Béla Bartók
  17. Pablo Picasso
  18. Charlie Chaplin
  19. Adolf Hitler
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Joe Biden
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Béla Bartók was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

When Béla Bartók died, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

Born during Béla Bartók’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Béla Bartók died, Michael Jackson was born 13 years after Béla Bartók died, Vladimir Putin was born 7 years after Béla Bartók died and George W. Bush was born about a year after Béla Bartók died.

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All 910 contemporaries we track

  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. Joe Biden born 1942
  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  72. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  73. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  94. Bob Dylan born 1941
  95. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  96. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  102. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  103. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  106. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  110. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  111. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  112. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  113. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  116. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  119. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  120. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  121. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  122. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  123. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  124. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  125. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  126. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  127. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  128. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  131. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  132. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  133. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  139. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  140. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  144. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  145. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  146. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  147. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  148. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  149. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  150. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026

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