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Albert Speer
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Albert Speer

German Holocaust perpetrator

Born 19 March 1905 · died 1 September 1981, aged 76

Who was alive at the same time as Albert Speer?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Albert Speer, 1905 – 1981
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Albert Speer was born, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 35 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

When Albert Speer died, Barack Obama was 20, Donald Trump was 35, Michael Jackson was 23, Vladimir Putin was 28 and Ronald Reagan was 70.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died about 15 years before Albert Speer was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 5 years before Albert Speer was born, Anton Chekhov died about a year before Albert Speer was born and Lionel Messi was born about 6 years after Albert Speer died.

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Where Albert Speer’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,069 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Albert Speer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1943.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Shakira born 1977
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. François Hollande born 1954
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  47. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  48. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  49. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  50. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  51. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  52. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  59. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  60. Elon Musk born 1971
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  65. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  66. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  67. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  68. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  69. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  75. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  76. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  77. Madonna born 1958
  78. Kamala Harris born 1964
  79. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  81. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  84. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Xi Jinping born 1953
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Naruhito born 1960
  92. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  93. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  94. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  95. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  96. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  97. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  98. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  99. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  100. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  101. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  104. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  105. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  106. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  107. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  108. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  109. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  110. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  111. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  112. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  113. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  114. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  115. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  120. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  121. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  122. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  123. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  124. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  125. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  126. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  127. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  128. Eminem born 1972
  129. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  130. Narendra Modi born 1950
  131. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  132. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  133. Rafael Correa born 1963
  134. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  135. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  136. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  137. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  138. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  139. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  140. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  141. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  142. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  143. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  144. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  145. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  146. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  147. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  148. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  149. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  150. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935