Who Was Alive

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian and Soviet poet

Born 19 July 1893 · died 14 April 1930, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Vladimir Mayakovsky?

  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. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When Vladimir Mayakovsky was born, Adolf Hitler was 4, Albert Einstein was 14, Vladimir Lenin was 23, Mahatma Gandhi was 23 and Leo Tolstoy was 64.

When Vladimir Mayakovsky died, Adolf Hitler was 40, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 11 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

Born during Vladimir Mayakovsky’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Zedong.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 10 years before Vladimir Mayakovsky was born, Charles Darwin died 11 years before Vladimir Mayakovsky was born, Joe Biden was born 12 years after Vladimir Mayakovsky died and Victor Hugo died 8 years before Vladimir Mayakovsky 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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
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  80. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  81. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  92. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  93. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
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  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  126. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  127. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
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  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  131. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  132. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  133. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  134. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
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  137. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
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  140. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
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  144. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
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  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
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