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Arturo Toscanini
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Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor

Born 25 March 1867 · died 16 January 1957, aged 89

Who was alive at the same time as Arturo Toscanini?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Arturo Toscanini, 1867 – 1957
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When Arturo Toscanini was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Arturo Toscanini died, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 45, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

Born during Arturo Toscanini’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 4 years after Arturo Toscanini died, Michael Jackson was born about a year after Arturo Toscanini died, Abraham Lincoln died about 2 years before Arturo Toscanini was born and Jimmy Wales was born about 9 years after Arturo Toscanini died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,262 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Arturo Toscanini. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1912.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  39. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  40. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  41. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  42. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  43. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  44. Bill Clinton born 1946
  45. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  58. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  61. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  62. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  63. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  64. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  65. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  66. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  67. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  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. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  99. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  100. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  101. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  102. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  103. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  104. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  105. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  106. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  107. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  108. Bob Dylan born 1941
  109. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  110. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  111. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  112. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  113. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  114. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  115. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  116. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  117. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  118. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  119. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  120. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  121. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  122. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  123. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  124. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  125. Charles III born 1948
  126. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  127. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  132. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  133. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  134. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  135. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  136. Narendra Modi born 1950
  137. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  138. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  139. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  140. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  141. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  142. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  143. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  144. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  145. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  146. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  147. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  148. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  149. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  150. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945