Who Was Alive

David Hilbert

German mathematician

Born 23 January 1862 · died 14 February 1943, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as David Hilbert?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. David Hilbert
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Winston Churchill
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Joe Biden
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When David Hilbert was born, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 33, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

When David Hilbert died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 32, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

Born during David Hilbert’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 3 years after David Hilbert died, Vladimir Putin was born 9 years after David Hilbert died, George W. Bush was born 3 years after David Hilbert died and Bill Gates was born 12 years after David Hilbert died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  47. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  48. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  49. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  50. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  51. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  53. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  65. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  66. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  67. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  68. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  69. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  73. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  74. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  75. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  76. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  77. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  80. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  81. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  82. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  83. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  86. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  87. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  88. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  89. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  90. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  92. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  94. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
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  96. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  97. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  98. Bob Dylan born 1941
  99. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  100. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  101. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  102. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  106. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  107. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  108. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  109. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  110. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  111. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  112. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  116. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  117. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  118. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  119. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  120. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  121. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  122. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  123. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  124. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  125. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  126. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  131. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  132. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  133. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  134. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  135. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  138. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  142. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  143. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  144. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  145. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  146. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  147. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  148. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  149. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  150. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922

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