Who Was Alive

Maurice Ravel

French composer

Born 7 March 1875 · died 28 December 1937, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Maurice Ravel?

  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. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Maurice Ravel
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  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 Maurice Ravel was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Maurice Ravel died, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 58, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

Born during Maurice Ravel’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 9 years after Maurice Ravel died, Vladimir Putin was born 15 years after Maurice Ravel died, Abraham Lincoln died 10 years before Maurice Ravel was born and George W. Bush was born 9 years after Maurice Ravel died.

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  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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