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Alberto Moravia

Italian writer and journalist

Born 28 November 1907 · died 26 September 1990, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Alberto Moravia?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Alberto Moravia
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  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 Alberto Moravia was born, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

When Alberto Moravia died, Barack Obama was 29, Donald Trump was 44, Michael Jackson was 32, Vladimir Putin was 37 and Ronald Reagan was 79.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died 7 years before Alberto Moravia was born, Anton Chekhov died 3 years before Alberto Moravia was born, Oscar Wilde died 7 years before Alberto Moravia was born and Otto von Bismarck died 9 years before Alberto Moravia was born.

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