Who Was Alive

Mata Hari

Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy

Born 7 August 1876 · died 15 October 1917, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Mata Hari?

  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. Marie Curie
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Winston Churchill
  15. Mata Hari
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Salvador Dalí
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. John F. Kennedy
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 Mata Hari was born, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 67.

When Mata Hari died, Adolf Hitler was 28, Albert Einstein was 38, Ronald Reagan was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 47 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Mata Hari’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 11 years before Mata Hari was born, Nelson Mandela was born about a year after Mata Hari died, Elizabeth II was born 9 years after Mata Hari died and Charles Dickens died 6 years before Mata Hari 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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  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. 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. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  50. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  52. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  53. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  54. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  55. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  56. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  57. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  58. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  59. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  60. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  61. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  64. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  78. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  79. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  80. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  83. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  85. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  91. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  92. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  93. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  94. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  95. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  96. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  97. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  98. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  101. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  102. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  103. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  104. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  105. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  106. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  107. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  108. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  109. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  110. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  111. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  112. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  113. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  114. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  115. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  116. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  117. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  118. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  119. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  120. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  121. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  122. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  123. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  124. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  125. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  126. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  127. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  128. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  129. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  130. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  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
  149. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  150. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891

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