Who Was Alive
Amrita Sher-Gil
Unknown author Unknown author probably Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870–1954), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungarian painter

Born 30 January 1913 · died 5 December 1941, aged 28
Also known as Amrita Sher Gill, Amrita Shergil, Amrita Sher Gil

Who was alive at the same time as Amrita Sher-Gil?

  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. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  13. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Amrita Sher-Gil, 1913 – 1941
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025

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When Amrita Sher-Gil was born, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

When Amrita Sher-Gil died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Amrita Sher-Gil’s lifetime: Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Che Guevara and Neil Armstrong.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 5 years after Amrita Sher-Gil died, Vladimir Putin was born about 11 years after Amrita Sher-Gil died, Leo Tolstoy died about 3 years before Amrita Sher-Gil was born and George W. Bush was born about 5 years after Amrita Sher-Gil died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,215 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Amrita Sher-Gil. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1927.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  8. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  26. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  29. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  30. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  31. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  32. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  37. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  38. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  50. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  63. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  64. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  75. Bob Dylan born 1941
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  84. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  95. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  96. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  115. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  121. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  122. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  123. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  124. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  125. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  126. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  127. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  130. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  131. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  132. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  133. Woody Allen born 1935
  134. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  135. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  136. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  137. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  138. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  141. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  145. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  146. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  147. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976