Who Was Alive

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States

Born 28 December 1856 · died 3 February 1924, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Woodrow Wilson?

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When Woodrow Wilson was born, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

When Woodrow Wilson died, Adolf Hitler was 34, Albert Einstein was 44, Ronald Reagan was 12, Nelson Mandela was 5 and Mahatma Gandhi was 54.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born 2 years after Woodrow Wilson died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 5 years after Woodrow Wilson died, Marilyn Monroe was born 2 years after Woodrow Wilson died and Pope Francis was born 12 years after Woodrow Wilson died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  93. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  100. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  105. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  106. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  107. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  108. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  109. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  110. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  118. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  119. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  120. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  121. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  122. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  123. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  124. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  125. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  126. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  131. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  132. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  133. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  134. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  135. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  136. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  137. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  138. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  139. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  140. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  141. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  142. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  143. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  144. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  145. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  146. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  147. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  150. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977

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