Who Was Alive

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American writer

Born 24 September 1896 · died 21 December 1940, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as F. Scott Fitzgerald?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald was born, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald died, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 71.

Born during F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 6 years after F. Scott Fitzgerald died, Vladimir Putin was born 12 years after F. Scott Fitzgerald died, Karl Marx died 13 years before F. Scott Fitzgerald was born and George W. Bush was born 6 years after F. Scott Fitzgerald died.

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All 802 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  85. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  105. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  106. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  107. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  108. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  109. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  110. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  111. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  116. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  117. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  120. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  121. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  125. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  126. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  127. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  128. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  129. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  130. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  131. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  132. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  133. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  134. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  135. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  136. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  137. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  138. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  143. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  144. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  145. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  146. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  147. Woody Allen born 1935
  148. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  149. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  150. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956

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