Who Was Alive
Anna Seghers
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Anna Seghers

German writer

Born 19 November 1900 · died 1 June 1983, aged 82
Also known as Netti Reiling

Who was alive at the same time as Anna Seghers?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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. Anna Seghers, 1900 – 1983
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Anna Seghers was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Anna Seghers died, Barack Obama was 21, Donald Trump was 36, Michael Jackson was 24, Vladimir Putin was 30 and Ronald Reagan was 72.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died about 10 years before Anna Seghers was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died months before Anna Seghers was born, Lionel Messi was born about 4 years after Anna Seghers died and Corbin Bleu was born about 6 years after Anna Seghers died.

What happened in Anna Seghers’s lifetime

Where Anna Seghers’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,172 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anna Seghers. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1942.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Shakira born 1977
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. François Hollande born 1954
  47. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  48. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  49. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  50. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  55. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  67. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  68. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  76. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  79. Madonna born 1958
  80. Kamala Harris born 1964
  81. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  82. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  83. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  87. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  88. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  89. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  90. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  91. Xi Jinping born 1953
  92. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  93. Naruhito born 1960
  94. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  95. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  96. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  97. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  98. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  99. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  100. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  101. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  102. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  103. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  104. Bob Dylan born 1941
  105. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  106. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  107. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  108. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  109. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  110. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  111. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  112. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  113. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  114. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  115. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  116. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  117. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  118. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  119. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  120. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  121. Charles III born 1948
  122. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  123. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  124. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  125. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  126. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  127. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  128. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  129. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  130. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  131. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  132. Eminem born 1972
  133. Beyoncé born 1981
  134. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  135. Narendra Modi born 1950
  136. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  137. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  138. Rafael Correa born 1963
  139. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  140. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  141. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  142. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  143. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  144. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  145. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  146. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  147. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  148. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  149. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  150. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971