Who Was Alive
Arthur Rubinstein
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Arthur Rubinstein

Polish classical pianist

Born 28 January 1887 · died 20 December 1982, aged 95

Who was alive at the same time as Arthur Rubinstein?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Arthur Rubinstein, 1887 – 1982
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  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 Arthur Rubinstein was born, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 17, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

When Arthur Rubinstein died, Barack Obama was 21, Donald Trump was 36, Michael Jackson was 24, Vladimir Putin was 30 and Ronald Reagan was 71.

Born during Arthur Rubinstein’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 4 years before Arthur Rubinstein was born, Charles Darwin died about 5 years before Arthur Rubinstein was born, Victor Hugo died about 2 years before Arthur Rubinstein was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 6 years before Arthur Rubinstein was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,263 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Arthur Rubinstein. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1935.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Bill Gates born 1955
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Shakira born 1977
  38. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  39. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  48. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  51. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  52. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  60. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  61. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  62. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  63. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  64. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  65. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  66. Elon Musk born 1971
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  77. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  78. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  79. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  80. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  82. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  83. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  84. Madonna born 1958
  85. Kamala Harris born 1964
  86. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  87. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  88. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  89. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  90. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  91. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  92. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  93. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  94. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  95. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  96. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  97. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  98. Xi Jinping born 1953
  99. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  100. Naruhito born 1960
  101. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  102. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  103. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  104. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  105. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  106. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  107. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  108. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  109. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  110. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  111. Bob Dylan born 1941
  112. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  113. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  114. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  115. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  116. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  117. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  118. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  119. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  120. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  121. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  122. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  123. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  124. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  125. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  126. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  127. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  128. Charles III born 1948
  129. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  130. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  131. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  132. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  133. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  134. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  135. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  136. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  137. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  138. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  139. Eminem born 1972
  140. Beyoncé born 1981
  141. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  142. Narendra Modi born 1950
  143. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  144. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  145. Rafael Correa born 1963
  146. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  147. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  148. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  149. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  150. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906