Who Was Alive

Yanka Kupala

Belarusian writer

Born 7 July 1882 · died 28 June 1942, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Yanka Kupala?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Mark Twain
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Thomas Edison
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Sigmund Freud
  9. Marie Curie
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Pablo Picasso
  17. Yanka Kupala
  18. Charlie Chaplin
  19. Adolf Hitler
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When Yanka Kupala was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Yanka Kupala died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Yanka Kupala’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 4 years after Yanka Kupala died, Vladimir Putin was born 10 years after Yanka Kupala died, George W. Bush was born 4 years after Yanka Kupala died and Charles Darwin died months before Yanka Kupala was born.

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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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  70. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  100. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  105. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  106. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  107. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  108. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  109. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  116. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  117. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  118. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  119. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  120. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  121. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  134. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  135. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  139. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  140. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  141. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  142. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  143. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  144. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  145. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  146. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  147. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  148. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  149. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  150. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965

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