Who Was Alive

Malcolm X

American Black rights activist

Born 19 May 1925 · died 21 February 1965, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Malcolm X?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Winston Churchill
  6. Joseph Stalin
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Pablo Picasso
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Malcolm X
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Malcolm X was born, Adolf Hitler was 36, Albert Einstein was 46, Ronald Reagan was 14, Nelson Mandela was 6 and Mahatma Gandhi was 55.

When Malcolm X died, Barack Obama was 3, Donald Trump was 18, Michael Jackson was 6, Vladimir Putin was 12 and Ronald Reagan was 54.

Born during Malcolm X’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about a year before Malcolm X was born, Leo Tolstoy died 15 years before Malcolm X was born, Franz Kafka died about a year before Malcolm X was born and Jimmy Wales was born about a year after Malcolm X died.

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  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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