Who Was Alive

Sun Yat-sen

Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary

Born 12 November 1866 · died 12 March 1925, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Sun Yat-sen?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Charles Dickens
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Sun Yat-sen
  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. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Sun Yat-sen was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Sun Yat-sen died, Adolf Hitler was 35, Albert Einstein was 45, Ronald Reagan was 14, Nelson Mandela was 6 and Mahatma Gandhi was 55.

Born during Sun Yat-sen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about a year before Sun Yat-sen was born, Elizabeth II was born about a year after Sun Yat-sen died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 4 years after Sun Yat-sen died and Marilyn Monroe was born about a year after Sun Yat-sen 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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
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