Who Was Alive

Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares

Born 13 June 1888 · died 30 November 1935, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Fernando Pessoa?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Sigmund Freud
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. Marie Curie
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Fernando Pessoa
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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 Fernando Pessoa was born, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When Fernando Pessoa died, Adolf Hitler was 46, Albert Einstein was 56, Ronald Reagan was 24, Nelson Mandela was 17 and Mahatma Gandhi was 66.

Born during Fernando Pessoa’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 11 years after Fernando Pessoa died, Karl Marx died 5 years before Fernando Pessoa was born, George W. Bush was born 11 years after Fernando Pessoa died and Charles Darwin died 6 years before Fernando Pessoa was born.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  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
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  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
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  42. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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