Who Was Alive

Rachel Carson

American marine biologist and conservationist

Born 27 May 1907 · died 14 April 1964, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Rachel Carson?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Rachel Carson
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  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 Rachel Carson was born, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

When Rachel Carson died, Barack Obama was 2, Donald Trump was 17, Michael Jackson was 5, Vladimir Putin was 11 and Ronald Reagan was 53.

Born during Rachel Carson’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died 7 years before Rachel Carson was born, Anton Chekhov died 3 years before Rachel Carson was born, Jimmy Wales was born 2 years after Rachel Carson died and Shakira was born 13 years after Rachel Carson died.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
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  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
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  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
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  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
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  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
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  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  72. Madonna born 1958
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  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
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  120. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
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  123. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  125. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  126. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  127. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  128. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  129. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  130. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  131. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  132. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  133. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  134. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  135. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  136. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  137. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  138. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  139. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  140. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  141. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  142. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  143. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  144. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  145. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
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