Who Was Alive

Lesya Ukrainka

Ukrainian poet, writer and feminist

Born 13 February 1871 (Julian calendar) · died 1 August 1913, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Lesya Ukrainka?

  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. Rabindranath Tagore
  12. Marie Curie
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Lesya Ukrainka
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Salvador Dalí
  24. Ronald Reagan
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 Lesya Ukrainka was born, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Lesya Ukrainka died, Adolf Hitler was 24, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 43 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

Born during Lesya Ukrainka’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 6 years before Lesya Ukrainka was born, Nelson Mandela was born 5 years after Lesya Ukrainka died, Elizabeth II was born 13 years after Lesya Ukrainka died and Charles Dickens died about a year before Lesya Ukrainka was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  47. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  63. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  64. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  65. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  73. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  74. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  75. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  76. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  82. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  84. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  87. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  88. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  89. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  90. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  91. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  92. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  93. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  94. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  95. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  96. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  101. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
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  103. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  113. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
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  115. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  119. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  120. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  121. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  122. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  123. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  124. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  125. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  126. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  127. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  128. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  129. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  130. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  131. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  132. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  133. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  134. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  135. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  136. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  137. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  138. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  139. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  140. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  141. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  142. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  143. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  144. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  145. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  146. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  147. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  148. Jack London 1876 – 1916
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