Who Was Alive

D. H. Lawrence

English writer and poet

Born 11 September 1885 · died 2 March 1930, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as D. H. Lawrence?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Sigmund Freud
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. Marie Curie
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. D. H. Lawrence
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When D. H. Lawrence was born, Albert Einstein was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 15, Mahatma Gandhi was 15, Leo Tolstoy was 57 and Joseph Stalin was 6.

When D. H. Lawrence died, Adolf Hitler was 40, Albert Einstein was 50, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 11 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

Born during D. H. Lawrence’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: Karl Marx died 2 years before D. H. Lawrence was born, Charles Darwin died 3 years before D. H. Lawrence was born, Joe Biden was born 12 years after D. H. Lawrence died and Victor Hugo died months before D. H. Lawrence was born.

Compare

All 702 contemporaries we track

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  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. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  61. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  62. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  86. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  93. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  94. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  95. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  96. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  97. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  98. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  99. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  103. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  104. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  105. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  109. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  110. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  111. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  112. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  113. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  114. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  115. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  116. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  117. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  118. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  119. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  120. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  121. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  122. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  123. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  124. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  125. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  126. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  128. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  129. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  130. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  131. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  132. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  145. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  146. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  147. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  150. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977

The 150 best known are listed.