Who Was Alive

William Howard Taft

27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

Born 15 September 1857 · died 8 March 1930, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as William Howard Taft?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  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. William Howard Taft
  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. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When William Howard Taft was born, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 55.

When William Howard Taft died, Adolf Hitler was 40, Albert Einstein was 50, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 11 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

Born during William Howard Taft’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born 12 years after William Howard Taft died, Pope Francis was born 6 years after William Howard Taft died, Edgar Allan Poe died 8 years before William Howard Taft was born and Neil Armstrong was born months after William Howard Taft died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
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