Who Was Alive

Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter

Born 6 July 1907 · died 13 July 1954, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Frida Kahlo?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Marie Curie
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Frida Kahlo
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Martin Luther King Jr.
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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 Frida Kahlo was born, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

When Frida Kahlo died, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

Born during Frida Kahlo’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 7 years after Frida Kahlo died, Michael Jackson was born 4 years after Frida Kahlo died, Friedrich Nietzsche died 7 years before Frida Kahlo was born and Bill Gates was born about a year after Frida Kahlo died.

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All 945 contemporaries we track

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  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. Xi Jinping born 1953
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  82. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  83. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  84. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  85. Bob Dylan born 1941
  86. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  87. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  88. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  89. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  90. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  91. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  92. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  103. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  104. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Narendra Modi born 1950
  108. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  109. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  113. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  114. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  115. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  116. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  117. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  118. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  119. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  122. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  123. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  126. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  127. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  128. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  129. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  130. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  131. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  132. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  133. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  134. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  135. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  138. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  139. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  140. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  141. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  142. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  143. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  144. Jackie Chan born 1954
  145. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  146. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  147. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  148. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  149. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  150. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

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