Who Was Alive

Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician

Born 11 December 1882 · died 5 January 1970, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Max Born?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Thomas Edison
  6. Vincent van Gogh
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Max Born
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Max Born was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

When Max Born died, Barack Obama was 8, Donald Trump was 23, Michael Jackson was 11, Vladimir Putin was 17 and Ronald Reagan was 58.

Born during Max Born’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Charles Darwin died months before Max Born was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky died about a year before Max Born was born, Charles Dickens died 12 years before Max Born was born and Hans Christian Andersen died 7 years before Max Born was born.

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  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  15. Joe Biden born 1942
  16. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  17. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  18. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  19. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
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