Who Was Alive

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist

Born 11 June 1899 · died 16 April 1972, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Yasunari Kawabata?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Yasunari Kawabata
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Yasunari Kawabata was born, Adolf Hitler was 10, Albert Einstein was 20, Vladimir Lenin was 29, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

When Yasunari Kawabata died, Barack Obama was 10, Donald Trump was 25, Michael Jackson was 13, Vladimir Putin was 19 and Ronald Reagan was 61.

Born during Yasunari Kawabata’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo died 14 years before Yasunari Kawabata was born, Vincent van Gogh died 9 years before Yasunari Kawabata was born, Shakira was born 5 years after Yasunari Kawabata died and Basshunter was born 12 years after Yasunari Kawabata died.

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  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
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