Who Was Alive

Patrice Lumumba

Congolese politician and independence leader

Born 2 July 1925 · died 17 January 1961, aged 35

Who was alive at the same time as Patrice Lumumba?

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

When Patrice Lumumba died, Donald Trump was 14, Michael Jackson was 2, Vladimir Putin was 8, Ronald Reagan was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 42.

Born during Patrice Lumumba’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born months after Patrice Lumumba died, Vladimir Lenin died about a year before Patrice Lumumba was born, Leo Tolstoy died 15 years before Patrice Lumumba was born and Franz Kafka died about a year before Patrice Lumumba was born.

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  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
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  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
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  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
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