Who Was Alive

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist

Born 2 October 1869 · died 30 January 1948, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Mahatma Gandhi?

  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. 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 Mahatma Gandhi was born, Karl Marx was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 41, Charles Darwin was 60, Victor Hugo was 67 and Vincent van Gogh was 16.

When Mahatma Gandhi died, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 29 and George W. Bush was 1.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 13 years after Mahatma Gandhi died, Michael Jackson was born 10 years after Mahatma Gandhi died, Vladimir Putin was born 4 years after Mahatma Gandhi died and Abraham Lincoln died 4 years before Mahatma Gandhi was born.

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  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
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  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
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