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Vladimir Vysotsky

Soviet singer-songwriter and actor

Born 25 January 1938 · died 25 July 1980, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Vladimir Vysotsky?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Vladimir Vysotsky
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Vladimir Vysotsky was born, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 58, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

When Vladimir Vysotsky died, Barack Obama was 18, Donald Trump was 34, Michael Jackson was 21, Vladimir Putin was 27 and Ronald Reagan was 69.

Born during Vladimir Vysotsky’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 14 years before Vladimir Vysotsky was born, Thomas Edison died 7 years before Vladimir Vysotsky was born, Marie Curie died 4 years before Vladimir Vysotsky was born and Franz Kafka died 14 years before Vladimir Vysotsky was born.

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