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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German pastor and theologian

Born 4 February 1906 · died 9 April 1945, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  21. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  22. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born, Adolf Hitler was 16, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 35, Mahatma Gandhi was 36 and Leo Tolstoy was 77.

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer died, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

Born during Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Dietrich Bonhoeffer died, Michael Jackson was born about 13 years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer died, Vladimir Putin was born about 7 years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer died and George W. Bush was born about a year after Dietrich Bonhoeffer died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,436 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1926.

  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. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  35. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  79. Bob Dylan born 1941
  80. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  84. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  85. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  94. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  98. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  99. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  100. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  101. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  102. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  103. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  104. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  105. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  108. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  109. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  110. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  111. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  112. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  113. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  116. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  117. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  118. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  119. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  125. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  126. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  127. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  128. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  129. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  130. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  131. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  132. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  133. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  134. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  135. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  136. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  137. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  138. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  139. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  143. Woody Allen born 1935
  144. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  145. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  146. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  147. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  148. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  149. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  150. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969