Who Was Alive

Lu Xun

Chinese novelist and essayist

Born 25 September 1881 · died 19 October 1936, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Lu Xun?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Mark Twain
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Sigmund Freud
  10. Marie Curie
  11. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Joseph Stalin
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  16. Albert Einstein
  17. Lu Xun
  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 Lu Xun was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Lu Xun died, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 25, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 67.

Born during Lu Xun’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 10 years after Lu Xun died, George W. Bush was born 10 years after Lu Xun died, Joe Biden was born 6 years after Lu Xun died and Fyodor Dostoyevsky died months before Lu Xun 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. 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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  92. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  93. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  94. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  97. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  127. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  128. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  129. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  130. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  138. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  139. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  142. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  145. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  146. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  147. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  148. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  149. Woody Allen born 1935
  150. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

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