Who Was Alive

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Japanese writer

Born 1 March 1892 · died 24 July 1927, aged 35

Who was alive at the same time as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  16. Franz Kafka
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  20. Salvador Dalí
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. John F. Kennedy
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

When Ryūnosuke Akutagawa died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe, Mao Zedong and Walt Disney.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 9 years before Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born, Charles Darwin died 10 years before Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born, Victor Hugo died 7 years before Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born and Vincent van Gogh died 2 years before Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
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