Who Was Alive
Babe Ruth
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Babe Ruth

American baseball player

Born 6 February 1895 · died 16 August 1948, aged 53
Also known as George Herman Ruth, George Herman Ruth Jr., The Bambino

Who was alive at the same time as Babe Ruth?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Babe Ruth, 1895 – 1948
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Babe Ruth was born, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

When Babe Ruth died, Donald Trump was 2, Albert Einstein was 69, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 30 and George W. Bush was 2.

Born during Babe Ruth’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 13 years after Babe Ruth died, Michael Jackson was born about 10 years after Babe Ruth died, Vladimir Putin was born about 4 years after Babe Ruth died and Karl Marx died about 12 years before Babe Ruth was born.

What happened in Babe Ruth’s lifetime

Where Babe Ruth’s contemporaries were born

Babe Ruth is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (80 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,691 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Babe Ruth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1922.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  90. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  91. Bob Dylan born 1941
  92. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  100. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  105. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  106. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  107. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  108. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  109. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  114. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  118. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  119. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  120. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  121. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  122. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  123. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  124. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  126. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  127. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  128. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  131. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  134. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  139. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  140. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  144. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  145. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  146. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  147. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  148. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  149. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  150. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026