Who Was Alive

H. G. Wells

English writer

Born 21 September 1866 · died 13 August 1946, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as H. G. Wells?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. H. G. Wells
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Pablo Picasso
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. Nelson Mandela
  21. Elizabeth II
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When H. G. Wells was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When H. G. Wells died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 76.

Born during H. G. Wells’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 15 years after H. G. Wells died, Michael Jackson was born 12 years after H. G. Wells died, Vladimir Putin was born 6 years after H. G. Wells died and Abraham Lincoln died about a year before H. G. Wells was born.

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