Who Was Alive

Harry Houdini

Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer

Born 24 March 1874 · died 31 October 1926, aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Harry Houdini?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Harry Houdini
  14. Winston Churchill
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. John F. Kennedy
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Harry Houdini was born, Karl Marx was 55, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 45 and Charles Darwin was 65.

When Harry Houdini died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Harry Houdini’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 9 years before Harry Houdini was born, Charles Dickens died 4 years before Harry Houdini was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 3 years after Harry Houdini died and Pope Francis was born 10 years after Harry Houdini died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
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