Who was alive at the same time?

Pick anyone from history and see who shared the world with them, and how old everyone was. 6,795 lives, every date sourced.

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Today’s question

Were Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Adolf HitlerPolitician who served as Reich Chancellor

Donald TrumpAmerican politician who served as President of the United States

Yes, their lives overlapped No, never

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The best-known people alive that year, with the age each reached during it (a range such as 17–21 means the birth year itself is uncertain). Everyone alive in 1789.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
George Washington, 1732 – 1799
Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

The 12 best known alive in 1789, on one timeline; dashed lines mark world events. Drag across, or use the arrow keys, to see their ages in other years. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

Born on this day, 15 October

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844
Prussian philosopher
Virgil, 70 BC
Roman poet
Akbar, 1542
Mughal emperor
Michel Foucault, 1926
French philosopher
Mesut Özil, 1988
Turkish footballer
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 1931
Indian politician who served as President of India

Everyone born on 15 October · every day of the year

Lives that overlapped more than you’d think

Leonardo da Vinci was 15 or 16 when Johannes Gutenberg died.
Elizabeth I was 30 when Michelangelo died.
Molière was 19 when Galileo Galilei died.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 when Isaac Newton died.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 when Voltaire died.
Karl Marx was 13 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died.
Vladimir Lenin was 15 when Victor Hugo died.
Vladimir Putin was 12 when Winston Churchill died.
Michael Jackson was 14 when Pablo Picasso died.

Born on the same day

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln: 12 February 1809
Werner Heisenberg and Walt Disney: 5 December 1901

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