Who Was Alive

Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian assassin

Born 13 July 1894 (Julian calendar) · died 28 April 1918, aged 23

Who was alive at the same time as Gavrilo Princip?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Anton Chekhov
  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. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  17. Franz Kafka
  18. Charlie Chaplin
  19. Adolf Hitler
  20. Mao Zedong
  21. Gavrilo Princip
  22. Salvador Dalí
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. John F. Kennedy
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 Gavrilo Princip was born, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

When Gavrilo Princip died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Gavrilo Princip’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Walt Disney, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus and Marlene Dietrich.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 11 years before Gavrilo Princip was born, Nelson Mandela was born months after Gavrilo Princip died, Charles Darwin died 12 years before Gavrilo Princip was born and Victor Hugo died 9 years before Gavrilo Princip was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  8. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  31. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  34. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  35. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  36. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  37. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  41. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  42. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  45. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  50. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  52. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  53. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  54. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  57. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  60. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
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  73. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  77. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  80. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
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  83. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
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  89. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
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  122. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  123. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
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  125. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  126. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
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  130. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  131. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
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  133. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  134. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
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  139. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
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  142. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  143. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  144. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  145. Joseph Goebbels 1897 – 1945
  146. Werner Heisenberg 1901 – 1976
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