Who Was Alive

Amelia Earhart

American aviation pioneer and author

Born 24 July 1897 · died 5 January 1939, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Amelia Earhart?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Amelia Earhart
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When Amelia Earhart was born, Adolf Hitler was 8, Albert Einstein was 18, Vladimir Lenin was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

When Amelia Earhart died, Adolf Hitler was 49, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

Born during Amelia Earhart’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 7 years after Amelia Earhart died, Vladimir Putin was born 13 years after Amelia Earhart died, Karl Marx died 14 years before Amelia Earhart was born and George W. Bush was born 7 years after Amelia Earhart died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
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  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
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  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
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  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
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  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  145. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
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