Who Was Alive

Paul von Hindenburg

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany

Born 2 October 1847 · died 2 August 1934, aged 86

Who was alive at the same time as Paul von Hindenburg?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Paul von Hindenburg
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Paul von Hindenburg was born, Karl Marx was 29, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

When Paul von Hindenburg died, Adolf Hitler was 45, Albert Einstein was 55, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 16 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

Born during Paul von Hindenburg’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 12 years after Paul von Hindenburg died, George W. Bush was born 12 years after Paul von Hindenburg died, Joe Biden was born 8 years after Paul von Hindenburg died and Alexander Pushkin died 10 years before Paul von Hindenburg was born.

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  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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