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Alberto Ascari
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Alberto Ascari

Italian driver

Born 13 July 1918 · died 26 May 1955, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Alberto Ascari?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Alberto Ascari, 1918 – 1955
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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 Alberto Ascari was born, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

When Alberto Ascari died, Donald Trump was 8, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 44, Nelson Mandela was 36 and George W. Bush was 8.

Born during Alberto Ascari’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 6 years after Alberto Ascari died, Michael Jackson was born about 3 years after Alberto Ascari died, Leo Tolstoy died about 8 years before Alberto Ascari was born and Mark Twain died about 8 years before Alberto Ascari was born.

What happened in Alberto Ascari’s lifetime

Where Alberto Ascari’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,850 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alberto Ascari. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1937.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Bill Clinton born 1946
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. François Hollande born 1954
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Xi Jinping born 1953
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. Bob Dylan born 1941
  90. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  91. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  92. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Charles III born 1948
  103. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  104. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  105. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Narendra Modi born 1950
  112. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  113. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  118. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  123. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  127. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  128. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  131. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  132. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  133. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  134. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  135. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  136. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  137. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  138. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  139. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Jackie Chan born 1954
  142. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  143. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  144. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  145. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  148. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  149. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  150. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965