Who Was Alive

Al Capone

American gangster

Born 17 January 1899 · died 25 January 1947, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Al Capone?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Al Capone
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. John F. Kennedy
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Martin Luther King Jr.
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When Al Capone was born, Adolf Hitler was 9, Albert Einstein was 19, Vladimir Lenin was 28, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

When Al Capone died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Al Capone’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 14 years after Al Capone died, Michael Jackson was born 11 years after Al Capone died, Vladimir Putin was born 5 years after Al Capone died and Victor Hugo died 14 years before Al Capone was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  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. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
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  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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  148. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
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