Who Was Alive

Roald Amundsen

Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole

Born 16 July 1872 · died c. 1928

Who was alive at the same time as Roald Amundsen?

  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. Roald Amundsen
  14. Winston Churchill
  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 Roald Amundsen was born, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 43 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during Roald Amundsen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 7 years before Roald Amundsen was born, Joe Biden was born 12 years after Roald Amundsen died, Charles Dickens died 2 years before Roald Amundsen was born and Pope Francis was born 6 years after Roald Amundsen 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
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
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  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
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  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
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  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
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  133. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
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  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
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