Who Was Alive
César Vallejo
Prefecture of Police of Paris, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

César Vallejo

Peruvian writer

Born 16 March 1892 · died 15 April 1938, aged 46
Also known as Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendosa, Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza, C. Vallejo

Who was alive at the same time as César Vallejo?

  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. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. César Vallejo, 1892 – 1938
  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 César Vallejo was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

When César Vallejo died, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

Born during César Vallejo’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 8 years after César Vallejo died, Vladimir Putin was born about 14 years after César Vallejo died, Karl Marx died about 9 years before César Vallejo was born and George W. Bush was born about 8 years after César Vallejo died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,234 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as César Vallejo. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1915.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  65. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  72. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  73. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  88. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  89. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  90. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  95. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  96. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  99. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  100. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  101. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  104. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  105. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  109. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  110. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  111. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  117. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  120. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  121. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  125. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  126. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  127. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  128. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  129. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  130. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  131. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  132. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  133. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  134. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  135. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  136. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  137. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  142. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  143. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  144. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  145. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  146. Woody Allen born 1935
  147. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  148. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  149. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  150. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956