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Alfred Jodl
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Alfred Jodl

German soldier

Born 10 May 1890 · died 16 October 1946, aged 56
Also known as Alfred Baumgärtler, Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred Jodl?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Alfred Jodl, 1890 – 1946
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Alfred Jodl was born, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

When Alfred Jodl 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 Alfred Jodl’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 about 15 years after Alfred Jodl died, Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Alfred Jodl died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Alfred Jodl died and Karl Marx died about 7 years before Alfred Jodl was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,639 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alfred Jodl. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1918.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  96. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  97. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  98. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  99. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  100. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  101. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  110. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  111. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  112. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  113. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  116. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  119. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  120. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  121. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  122. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  123. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  124. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  126. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  127. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  128. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  131. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  134. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  139. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  140. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  144. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  145. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  146. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  147. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  148. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  149. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  150. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026