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Bronisław Malinowski
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Bronisław Malinowski

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer

Born 7 April 1884 · died 16 May 1942, aged 58
Also known as Bronislaw K. Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronisław Kasper Malinowski

Who was alive at the same time as Bronisław Malinowski?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Bronisław Malinowski, 1884 – 1942
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Bronisław Malinowski was born, Albert Einstein was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 14, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 5.

When Bronisław Malinowski died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Bronisław Malinowski’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 4 years after Bronisław Malinowski died, Vladimir Putin was born about 10 years after Bronisław Malinowski died, Karl Marx died about a year before Bronisław Malinowski was born and George W. Bush was born about 4 years after Bronisław Malinowski died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,456 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bronisław Malinowski. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1913.

  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. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  56. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  68. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  88. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  89. Bob Dylan born 1941
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  92. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  93. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  94. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  97. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  102. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  106. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  107. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  111. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  112. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  116. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  117. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  118. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  119. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  122. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  123. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  126. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  127. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  128. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  129. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  131. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  132. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  133. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  134. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  135. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  136. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  137. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  138. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  139. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  140. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  141. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  142. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  143. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  144. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  145. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  146. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  150. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931