Who Was Alive

Sigrid Undset

Norwegian writer

Born 20 May 1882 · died 10 June 1949, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Sigrid Undset?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Mark Twain
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Thomas Edison
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Sigmund Freud
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Sigrid Undset
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. Nelson Mandela
  21. Elizabeth II
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When Sigrid Undset was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Sigrid Undset died, Donald Trump was 2, Albert Einstein was 70, Ronald Reagan was 38, Nelson Mandela was 30 and George W. Bush was 2.

Born during Sigrid Undset’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 12 years after Sigrid Undset died, Michael Jackson was born 9 years after Sigrid Undset died, Vladimir Putin was born 3 years after Sigrid Undset died and Charles Darwin died months before Sigrid Undset was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
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  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
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  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
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  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
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  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
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  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
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