Who Was Alive

Karel Čapek

Czech writer

Born 9 January 1890 · died 25 December 1938, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Karel Čapek?

  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. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Karel Čapek
  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 Karel Čapek was born, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

When Karel Čapek died, Adolf Hitler was 49, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

Born during Karel Čapek’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 8 years after Karel Čapek died, Vladimir Putin was born 14 years after Karel Čapek died, Karl Marx died 7 years before Karel Čapek was born and George W. Bush was born 8 years after Karel Čapek died.

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All 797 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  66. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  67. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  72. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  73. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  91. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  96. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  110. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  111. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  112. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  120. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  121. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  122. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  123. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  124. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  125. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  126. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  127. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  128. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  129. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  130. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  131. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  132. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  133. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  134. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  135. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  136. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  137. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  138. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  143. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  144. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  145. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  146. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  147. Woody Allen born 1935
  148. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  149. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  150. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940

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