Who Was Alive

Margaret Mitchell

American author and journalist

Born 8 November 1900 · died 16 August 1949, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Margaret Mitchell?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Marie Curie
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Margaret Mitchell
  16. Salvador Dalí
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. John F. Kennedy
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Martin Luther King Jr.
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When Margaret Mitchell was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Margaret Mitchell died, Donald Trump was 3, Albert Einstein was 70, Ronald Reagan was 38, Nelson Mandela was 31 and George W. Bush was 3.

Born during Margaret Mitchell’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 12 years after Margaret Mitchell died, Michael Jackson was born 9 years after Margaret Mitchell died, Vladimir Putin was born 3 years after Margaret Mitchell died and Vincent van Gogh died 10 years before Margaret Mitchell was born.

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  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  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
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Bill Clinton born 1946
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  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. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  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. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  72. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  87. Bob Dylan born 1941
  88. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  89. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  90. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  91. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  95. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  100. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  101. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  102. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  103. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  104. Charles III born 1948
  105. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  116. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  117. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  118. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  119. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  120. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  121. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  134. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  135. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  136. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  137. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  138. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  139. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  140. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  141. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  142. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  143. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  144. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  145. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  146. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  147. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  148. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  149. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  150. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999

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