Who Was Alive

Boris Pasternak

Russian writer

Born 29 January 1890 (Julian calendar) · died 30 May 1960, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Boris Pasternak?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Sigmund Freud
  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. Boris Pasternak
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Boris Pasternak was born, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

When Boris Pasternak died, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was 1, Vladimir Putin was 7, Ronald Reagan was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Boris Pasternak’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about a year after Boris Pasternak died, Karl Marx died 7 years before Boris Pasternak was born, Charles Darwin died 8 years before Boris Pasternak was born and Victor Hugo died 5 years before Boris Pasternak was born.

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  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
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  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
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  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
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